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. 1980 May;43(5):579–581. doi: 10.1136/hrt.43.5.579

Aortic root dissection. Another cause of early systolic closure of the aortic valve.

J Candell-Riera, H G del Castillo, J Rius
PMCID: PMC482344  PMID: 7378219

Abstract

An early systolic closure of the aortic valve was recorded in the echocardiogram in two patients with aortic root dissection. This sign, initially described in discrete subaortic stenosis and occasionally observed in mitral regurgitation and interventricular septal defect, has not so far been described in dissecting aneurysm of the aorta.

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