TY - JOUR
T1 - Acute aortic regurgitation due to spontaneous rupture of a fenestrated cusp
T2 - Report in a 65-year-old man and review of seven additional cases
AU - Blaszyk, Hagen
AU - Witkiewicz, Agnieszka K.
AU - Edwards, William D.
PY - 1999/7
Y1 - 1999/7
N2 - A 65-year-old man with chronic hypertension developed dyspnea, a cough, and a new diastolic murmur. Two-dimensional echocardiography showed severe aortic regurgitation. No valvular vegetations were identified and blood cultures were negative. Surgical intervention was recommended, but the patient died of an acute intracranial hemorrhage two weeks later. At autopsy, the posterior aortic cusp was flail, due to rupture of the residual cord above two large fenestrations. There was no acute or healed endocarditis. To our knowledge, this is the eighth reported case of aortic valve incompetence due to spontaneous rupture of a fenestrated cusp. Patients ranged in age from 31-67 years (mean, 54), and 4 (50%) were older than 60 years. Seven (88%) of the 8 were men, and 4 (57%) of 7 had chronic hypertension. Analogously, in another four reported cases, aortic insufficiency developed following spontaneous rupture of the fenestrated raphe of an atypical congenitally bicuspid aortic valve. Noninfective and nontraumatic rupture of cord-like aortic valve structures may result in severe acute aortic regurgitation, particularly in men with chronic hypertension. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.
AB - A 65-year-old man with chronic hypertension developed dyspnea, a cough, and a new diastolic murmur. Two-dimensional echocardiography showed severe aortic regurgitation. No valvular vegetations were identified and blood cultures were negative. Surgical intervention was recommended, but the patient died of an acute intracranial hemorrhage two weeks later. At autopsy, the posterior aortic cusp was flail, due to rupture of the residual cord above two large fenestrations. There was no acute or healed endocarditis. To our knowledge, this is the eighth reported case of aortic valve incompetence due to spontaneous rupture of a fenestrated cusp. Patients ranged in age from 31-67 years (mean, 54), and 4 (50%) were older than 60 years. Seven (88%) of the 8 were men, and 4 (57%) of 7 had chronic hypertension. Analogously, in another four reported cases, aortic insufficiency developed following spontaneous rupture of the fenestrated raphe of an atypical congenitally bicuspid aortic valve. Noninfective and nontraumatic rupture of cord-like aortic valve structures may result in severe acute aortic regurgitation, particularly in men with chronic hypertension. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1054-8807(99)00009-5
DO - 10.1016/S1054-8807(99)00009-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 10724525
AN - SCOPUS:0032821334
SN - 1054-8807
VL - 8
SP - 213
EP - 216
JO - Cardiovascular Pathology
JF - Cardiovascular Pathology
IS - 4
ER -