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Congenital anomaly of the right coronary leaflet complicated by infective endocarditis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Avram Benatar ,
Ger Bennink  and
Henry van de Wal
Avram Benatar
Affiliation:
From the Paediatric Heart Centre, Wilhelmina Children‘s Hospital, University of Utrecht, Utrecht
Ger Bennink
Affiliation:
From the Paediatric Heart Centre, Wilhelmina Children‘s Hospital, University of Utrecht, Utrecht
Henry van de Wal*
Affiliation:
From the Paediatric Heart Centre, Wilhelmina Children‘s Hospital, University of Utrecht, Utrecht
*
Professor Henry van de Wal, Paediatric Heart Centre, Wilhelmina Children‘s Hospital, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 18009, 3501 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel. (31)-30-320355; Fax. (31)-30-320710.
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Abstract

A congenital defect of the right coronary leaflet (fenestration) is an unusually rare cause for aortic incompetence in childhood. We report an eight-year-old child with such an anomaly who presented with infective endocarditis of the left ventricle. The importance of excision of the vegetation prior to the occurrence of life-threatening embolic complications is discussed.

Keywords

Infective endocarditisright coronary leafletcardiac surgery
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 275 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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