Quadricuspid pulmonary valve with pulmonary hypertension: a case report
Wenting Li, Yang Zhang, Xiaopei Cui, Qiushang Ji, Flemming Javier Olsen, Christoph Sinning, Melonie Johns, Tom Wardill · 2024
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Description
Wenting Li and co-authors report a rare heart defect found in a middle-aged woman with palpitations. Their 2024 case report describes a fifty-two-year-old patient whose chest tightness and racing heart after exertion led to a full workup. Testing revealed a quadricuspid pulmonary valve, a valve born with four leaflets instead of the usual three, together with pulmonary hypertension.
Such valves are uncommon and usually silent, found by chance on imaging. Medication eased her symptoms enough for discharge without surgery. The authors use the case to stress the value of combining several imaging methods when judging pulmonary valve disease. A single case cannot guide treatment broadly, but it sharpens recognition. Reports like this help clinicians spot the defect when symptoms finally appear.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wenting Li, Yang Zhang, Xiaopei Cui, Qiushang Ji, Flemming Javier Olsen, Christoph Sinning, Melonie Johns, Tom Wardill |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |