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Case Reports
Transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of perioperative systolic murmur in aortic pathology.
- Tasneem Z Naqvi, Joseph W Zaky, and Sharo S Raissi.
- Cardiac Non-Invasive Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Rev Cardiovasc Med. 2003 Jan 1; 4 (2): 112-6.
AbstractDevelopment of a new systolic murmur in patients following a Bental procedure with a prosthetic or homograft aortic valve usually indicates an aortic valve-related complication. Here, we report new etiologies of a loud systolic murmur in patients with aortic disease. One patient developed a new loud systolic murmur as an initial manifestation of acute type A aortic dissection without any complication, and two patients developed a loud systolic murmur as the major manifestation of aortic graft failure following aortic root surgery. Auscultation of a new loud systolic murmur in the upper chest in patients with known aortic disease should alert one to a complication within the ascending aorta.
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