<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="Research Article" dtd-version="1.0"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">iarjacc</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">IARJACC</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IARJACC</journal-id><issn>2709-1880</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjacc.2020.v01i01.001</article-id><title-group><article-title>A Rare Case - Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm in Tetralogy of Fallot from West
African Patient</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Singh</given-names><surname>S</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Mandrekar</given-names><surname>AS</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Okyere</given-names><surname>I</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><aff-id id="aff-a" /><abstract>The&amp;nbsp;overall&amp;nbsp;incidence&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;Sinus&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;Valsalva&amp;nbsp;aneurysm&amp;nbsp;(SOVA) is&amp;nbsp;0.09%&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;general&amp;nbsp;population&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;comprise&amp;nbsp;0.1%&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;3.5%&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;all congenital cardiac&amp;nbsp;defects. It&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;associated with&amp;nbsp;only&amp;nbsp;2%&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;Tetralogy&amp;nbsp;of Fallot&amp;nbsp;(TOF)&amp;nbsp;patients,&amp;nbsp;thus&amp;nbsp;making&amp;nbsp;this&amp;nbsp;combination&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;unruptured&amp;nbsp;SOVA with&amp;nbsp;TOF&amp;nbsp;unique.&amp;nbsp;We&amp;nbsp;present&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;case&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;4½-&amp;nbsp;year-old&amp;nbsp;West&amp;nbsp;African&amp;nbsp;boy who&amp;nbsp;developed&amp;nbsp;exertional&amp;nbsp;dyspnea&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;frequent&amp;nbsp;squatting&amp;nbsp;episodes&amp;nbsp;since the&amp;nbsp;age&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;ten&amp;nbsp;months. He&amp;nbsp;was&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;having&amp;nbsp;any&amp;nbsp;other&amp;nbsp;major&amp;nbsp;medical/ genetic&amp;nbsp;history&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;phenotypically syndromic&amp;nbsp;features.&amp;nbsp;Preoperative diagnosis&amp;nbsp;was&amp;nbsp;confirmed&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Trans&amp;nbsp;Esophageal Echocardiography (TEE)&amp;nbsp;features&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;TOF&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;SOVA&amp;nbsp;arising&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;right&amp;nbsp;coronary&amp;nbsp;cusp&amp;nbsp;(RCC) bulging&amp;nbsp;but&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;distorting&amp;nbsp;Right&amp;nbsp;Ventricular Outflow&amp;nbsp;Tract&amp;nbsp;(RVOT).&amp;nbsp;The narrowest portion&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;aneurysm being&amp;nbsp;0.65&amp;nbsp;cm.&amp;nbsp;Postoperative Adequacy&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;TOF&amp;nbsp;repair&amp;nbsp;was&amp;nbsp;demonstrated by&amp;nbsp;ruling&amp;nbsp;out&amp;nbsp;residual Ventricular&amp;nbsp;Septal&amp;nbsp;Defect&amp;nbsp;(VSD),&amp;nbsp;morphological&amp;nbsp;distortion&amp;nbsp;as&amp;nbsp;stenosis/ regurgitation across&amp;nbsp;both&amp;nbsp;Left&amp;nbsp;Ventricular&amp;nbsp;Outflow&amp;nbsp;Tract&amp;nbsp;(LVOT)&amp;nbsp;and RVOT.&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;measurements&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;RVOT&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;LVOT&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;different&amp;nbsp;levels&amp;nbsp;were compared&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;Z-&amp;nbsp;scores&amp;nbsp;provided&amp;nbsp;by&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;Detroit&amp;nbsp;data.&amp;nbsp;TEE&amp;nbsp;was&amp;nbsp;useful not&amp;nbsp;only&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;pointing&amp;nbsp;out&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;adequacy&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;repair&amp;nbsp;but&amp;nbsp;also&amp;nbsp;predicted&amp;nbsp;not requiring&amp;nbsp;additional&amp;nbsp;intervention&amp;nbsp;especially&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;aortic&amp;nbsp;valve&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;near future.</abstract></article-meta></front><body /><back /></article>