Left Coronary Ostium Isolation and Aortic Valve Dysplasia in a Young Boy: A Case Report
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Filippo Benassi, Giuseppe DiBenedetto, Clorinda Labia, Guglielmo Stefanelli Cardiac Surgery, Hesperia Hospital, Modena, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedale S. Leonardo, Salerno, Italy |
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Congenital anomalies of the aortic valve represent a common malformation. Infrequently, a dysplastic aortic valve leaflet causes a severe coronary artery anomaly. Here, the case is reported of a malformed aortic valve in which the left rudimentary cusp occluded the left coronary ostium. At surgery the left coronary ostium was completely freed from the anomalous valvular tissue, a Konno operation was |
performed, and a 19 mm St. Jude Medical mechanical prosthesis was implanted. To date, very few reports have made of this rare malformation; moreover, to the present authors’ knowledge this is the only case to have been treated |
| Left Coronary Ostium Isolation and Aortic Valve Dysplasia in a Young Boy: A Case Report | |
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