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Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2007;15:455-456
© 2007 Asia Publishing EXchange Ltd

IMAGES IN CARDIOTHORACIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Subaortic Valvular Vegetation Mimicking Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis

Delawer Reber, MD, Paschalis Tossios, MD, Markus Fritz, MD, Marlene Helwing, MD1, Alfried Germing, MD2, Axel Laczkovics, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
1 Institute for Pathology
2 Department of Cardiology, Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Hospital Bochum, Bochum, Germany

For reprint information contact: Delawer Reber, MD, Tel: 49 234 302 3600, Fax: 49 234 302 6010, Email: delawer.reber@ruhr-uni-bochum.de, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Hospital, Bochum, Buerkle-de-la-Camp-Platz-1, 44789 Bochum, Germany.

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A 47-year-old male patient with symptoms of severe heart failure was diagnosed with aortic stenosis. Echocardiography showed normal systolic left ventricular function and an aortic valve with a peak transvalvular pressure gradient of 85 mm Hg and a valve area of 0.8 cm2. Cardiac catheterization showed a systolic pressure gradient of 101 mm Hg over the valve (area 0.54 cm2). Thus, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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