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Fatty infiltration of the aortic valve
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  • Liron Pantanowitz, MD, Baystate Health
  • Leng Jiang, MD, Baystate Health
Document Type
Article, Peer-reviewed
Publication Date
5-1-2009
Abstract

We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of fatty infiltration involving a semilunar cardiac valve. A non-obese 79-year-old man had an echogenic mass in the right coronary cusp on transesophageal echocardiography attributed to fatty infiltration. Fat in this location is extraordinary, and may arise from pluripotential interstitial myofibroblast-like cells, perhaps due to valvular injury.

Citation Information
Pantanowitz L, Jiang L. Fatty infiltration of the aortic valve Int J Cardiol 2008 Mar;nv.