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Clinically stable type A aortic dissection: an unusual case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2014

Olcay Özveren ,
Elif Eroğlu ,
Baran Erdik  and
Muzaffer Degertekin
Olcay Özveren*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Yeditepe University Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
Elif Eroğlu
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Yeditepe University Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
Baran Erdik
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, Yeditepe University Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
Muzaffer Degertekin
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Yeditepe University Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
*
Correspondence to: O. Özveren, Department of Cardiology, Yeditepe University Hospital, Devlet Yolu Ankara Cad No:102/104 Kozyatagi, İstanbul 34752, Turkey. Tel./Fax: +90 216 578 4000; E-mail: olcayozveren@gmail.com
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Abstract

Acute type A aortic dissection is a catastrophic situation, often accompanied by aortic regurgitation. A rarely described cause of aortic regurgitation, in this clinical scenario, is the prolapse of an intimal flap into the left ventricular outflow tract. We present here a case of acute type A aortic dissection with a circumferential intimal flap, prolapsing into the left ventricular outflow tract and causing massive aortic regurgitation.

Keywords

Circumferential dissection flapacute type A aortic dissectionacute aortic regurgitation
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 25 , Issue 7 , October 2015 , pp. 1387 - 1388
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© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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