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  • Title: Sudden cardiac death caused by coronary ostial compression by an aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva.
    Author: Henry RE, Daisley H, Barton EN.
    Journal: West Indian Med J; 1989 Dec; 38(4):250-2. PubMed ID: 2623851.
    Abstract:
    A 22-year-old man was asymptomatic until he died suddenly after being startled. Post-mortem examination was normal except for aneurysmal dilatation of the left Sinus of Valsalva, the upper margin of which formed a flap-like ridge, partially occluding the ostium of the left main coronary artery which arose immediately above it. Further compression of this "slit-like" orifice by aneurysmal distention was the proposed cause of myocardial ischaemia and arrhythmic death.
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