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Case Reports
. 2000 Oct;84(4):E9.
doi: 10.1136/heart.84.4.e9.

Pentacuspid aortic valve diagnosed by transoesophageal echocardiography

M Cemri  1 , A Cengel, T Timurkaynak
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Case Reports

Pentacuspid aortic valve diagnosed by transoesophageal echocardiography

M Cemri et al. Heart. 2000 Oct.

Abstract

Congenital aortic valve anomalies are quite a rare finding in echocardiographic examinations. A case of a 19 year old man with a pentacuspid aortic valve without aortic stenosis and regurgitation, detected by transoesophageal echocardiography, is presented.

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Figure 1
Transoesophageal echocardiographic basal short axis scan at level of the aortic valve. There is a pentacuspid aortic valve with three relatively equal cusps (1,2, and 4) and two smaller cusps (3 and 5).
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