Unicuspid aortic valve concomitant with aortic insufficiency presenting with infectious endocarditis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A unicuspid aortic valve is a rare congenital cardiac abnormality. Despite its uncommon finding on an initial presentation, aortic insufficiency is accompanied with unicuspid aortic valve and this might reflect the natural history of progression in the morphology of unicuspid aortic valve.

Case presentation

We describe a 65-year-old Japanese man who was evaluated for endocarditis and found to have a unicuspid aortic valve concomitant with moderate aortic insufficiency, which was, owing to the lack of evidence of valve membrane destruction, independent of underlying infectious endocarditis. In addition, aortic insufficiency was progressed because of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis on the ventricular side, in areas of high turbulence around the heart valve.

SUBMITTER: Yuzawa-Tsukada N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6753610 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature