Ruptured infective sinus of valsalva aneurysm complicated by peripheral mycotic pulmonary artery aneurysm: a case report
Yu Nosaka, Akira Murata, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Hideyasu Ueda, Hiroki Nakabori, Ai Sakai, Masaki Ushijima, Kenji Iino · 2026
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Yu Nosaka and colleagues report a 2026 case pairing two rare infected aneurysms in a 58-year-old woman in Japan. Infection of a heart valve had sent infected clots to the lungs and blocked the heart's outflow path. Scans during antibiotic treatment found a small infected bulge in a lung artery branch, at high risk of bursting. Heart imaging struggled to tell a birth defect hole apart from a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm. That is a bulge at the aorta's root.
Doctors first sealed the lung artery bulge with coils through a catheter, lowering the risk of catastrophic bleeding on the heart-lung machine. A probe ultrasound through the food pipe then confirmed the aortic root rupture, and surgery repaired it successfully. Two years on, no infection or growth had returned.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yu Nosaka, Akira Murata, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Hideyasu Ueda, Hiroki Nakabori, Ai Sakai, Masaki Ushijima, Kenji Iino |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14682 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |