Non-valvular main pulmonary artery vegetation associated with aortopulmonary window
Unal, M.; Tuncer, C.; Serçe, K.; Bostan, M.; Gökçe, M.; Erem, C.
Acta Cardiologica 50(3): 241-244
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5385 PMID: 7676763 Document Number: 447116
We present a 32-year-old female with aortopulmonary window and vegetation of non-valvular main pulmonary artery. The aortopulmonary window is a rare congenital disease in which the aorta and pulmonary arteries are communicated by a defect of variable diameter. The pulmonic valve is the least commonly involved valve in bacterial endocarditis, but there is no vegetation of non-valvular main pulmonary artery in the literature. Colour duplex sonography showed an aortopulmonary window with aortic regurgitation. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging demonstrating the vegetation on the wall of main pulmonary artery, is an useful and complementary method, and can be used for demonstration of congenital and acquired cardiovascular pathologies including aortopulmonary window and subpulmonic or suprapulmonic vegetations.