A Case of Quadricuspid Aortic Valve with Multiple Fenestrations

Rikuto Nii＊

Keisuke Morimoto＊

（Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sanin Rosai Hospital＊, Yonago, Japan）

A 73-year-old man diagnosed with severe aortic regurgitation by transthoracic echocardiography was referred to our hospital. Quadricuspid aortic valve was diagnosed on preoperative transesophageal echocardiography. We performed aortic valve replacement with a bioprosthetic valve. In the operation, the accessory cusp was found to be located between the right coronary and noncoronary cusps, and the cusps had multiple fenestrations near the commissures.

 

Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 48:330-334（2019）

Keywords：quadricuspid aortic valve;aortic valve fenestrations;aortic regurgitation