Silent Aortic Regurgitation.
10.4070/kcj.1977.7.1.39
- Author:
Jae Kyung ROH
;
Sung Soon KIM
;
Suk Ho CHUNG
;
Hong Do CHA
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Aortic Valve Insufficiency*;
Blood Pressure;
Chest Pain;
Diagnosis;
Electrocardiography;
Heart Murmurs;
Heart Valve Diseases;
Humans;
Hypertrophy;
Mitral Valve;
Mitral Valve Insufficiency;
Mitral Valve Stenosis;
Rheumatic Fever;
Syphilis;
Thorax
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
1977;7(1):39-45
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Aortic regurgitation is a common valvular heart disease, usually the result of rheumatic fever, or syphilis, and rarely of congenital origin. It is frequently associated with other valvular heart disease, especially mitral valve disease. It can be diagnosed by the presence of pulse pressure widening, a Corrigan pulse, and an early decreascendo diastolic murmur at the left sternal border between the second and third intercostal spaces. After the clinical application of cineaortography in the diagnosis of valvular disease, Segal et al (1964) first reported rheumatic aortic regurgitation without an audible murmur in patients having mitral valve disease. The importance of discovering aortic reguritation in patients with predominent mitral disease has begun to be appreciated recently, especially as commisurotomies for the relief of mitral stenosis are performed more frequently. Nowadays eventhough the severity of aortic regurgitation is often not evident preoperatively, aortic regurgitation can become very evident when mitral stenosis is relieved. This study was comprised of seventeen patients with silent aortic regurgitation which was confirmed by cineaortography at Severance Hospital from January, 1970 to August, 1976. 1. Of the seventeen patients, 12 patients were associated with mitral stenosis, 4 with mitral steno-insufficiency, and 1 with mitral insufficiency. 2. Silent aortic regurgitation was suggested from the accompanying clinical features such as chest pain, apical heaving, and left ventficular hypertrophy pattern on both roentgenogram of the chest and electrocardiogram. 3. The severity of the aortic regurgitation was mild to moderate; 7 of the 17 patients being grade I, and 10 patients being grade II on cineaortogram.
