{"title":"[Unruptured aneurysm of non-coronary sinus of Valsalva mimicking a right atrial mass].","authors":"Beniamino Procaccini","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms are extremely rare with a predominance in the Asian population. The clinical presentation may be ambiguous, depending on which sinus is affected and on the conditions of the lesion. We report a case of a 33-year-old patient with Down syndrome. Ambulatory transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography both show a mass located in the right atrium presumed to be of mixomatous nature. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography and surgical exploration lead to the diagnosis of sinus of Valsalva aneurysm.</p>","PeriodicalId":80290,"journal":{"name":"Italian heart journal. Supplement : official journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Italian heart journal. Supplement : official journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms are extremely rare with a predominance in the Asian population. The clinical presentation may be ambiguous, depending on which sinus is affected and on the conditions of the lesion. We report a case of a 33-year-old patient with Down syndrome. Ambulatory transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography both show a mass located in the right atrium presumed to be of mixomatous nature. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography and surgical exploration lead to the diagnosis of sinus of Valsalva aneurysm.