RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Aortico-left ventricular tunnel in a neonate
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 87
OP 90
VO 59
IS 1
A1 Eliot R. Rosenkranz
A1 Daniel J. Murphy, Jr
YR 1992
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/59/1/87.abstract
AB Aortico-left ventricular tunnel is a rare paravalvular communication between the aorta and the left ventricle resulting in severe aortic regurgitation. It originates most frequently just superior to the right sinus of Valsalva and enters the left ventricle just inferior to the right aortic valve cusp traversing the infundibular or perimembranous ventricular septum. We report our experience with this lesion presenting in a neonate on the first day of life and describe its clinical presentation, noninvasive diagnosis, and surgical management.