Acute myocardial infarction due to unruptured aneurysm of left sinus of valsalva with aortic valve regurgitation

J Card Surg. 2005 Nov-Dec;20(6):545-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.00107.x.

Abstract

This report describes a 35-year-old woman with unruptured aneurysm of the left sinus of Valsalva presenting as non-ST elevation myocardial infarction due to the compression of the left coronary artery by aneurysm. Cardiac multislice CT and angiogram revealed a large aneurysm of the left sinus of Valsalva compressing the left main coronary artery. Surgical repair was performed by closing the entrance of the aneurysm and aortic valve replacement. Postoperative coronary flow was restored and thus anginal symptom disappeared.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aortic Aneurysm / complications*
  • Aortic Aneurysm / surgery
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / complications*
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / surgery
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Circulation
  • Female
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
  • Humans
  • Hypothermia, Induced
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
  • Myocardial Infarction / surgery
  • Sinus of Valsalva / pathology*
  • Sinus of Valsalva / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed