A young man’s repeated face swelling was diagnosed as an enlarged or swollen heart, which led to heart failure. Doctors said the man had a rupture of a sinus of Valsalva aneurysm - a rare but serious ...

A MAN whose face swelled up with he was hungover was diagnosed with diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening heart condition. It took patient, 33, three months to be diagnosed, with his symptoms ...

The right coronary artery (RCA) arises further caudal, at the right aortic sinus. The RCA runs through the atrioventricular groove, encircling the tricuspid orifice, reciprocal to the LCX (Figure 4).

Unfortunately, while 25% of elderly patients with aortic stenosis develop atrial fibrillation, only a minority can be successfully cardioverted to normal sinus rhythm. In these patients ...

"It is therefore important to develop a strategy for the early recognition of aortic sinus aneurysm rupture." Signs of new-onset heart failure in young patients with no previous history of heart ...

It is therefore important to develop a strategy for the early recognition of aortic sinus aneurysm rupture.' RSOVA is rare, affecting only about 0.09 per cent of the population — just less than ...