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Single pulmonary valve cusp agenesis first detected by computed tomography reconstruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2021

Giovanni A. Chiariello*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Olivier Vahdat
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France
Eric Bruguiere
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France
Issam Abouliatim
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France
*
Author for correspondence: Dr. Giovanni Alfonso Chiariello, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Clinique Pasteur, 45 Avenue de Lombez, 31076Toulouse, France. Tel: +33 (5) 62 21 16 46; Fax: +33 (5) 62 21 16 82.E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We present the case, with tomographic three-dimensional reconstructions, of an adult patient affected by congenital absence of one pulmonary valve cusp with completely normal morphology of the other two cusps.

Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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