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An adult patient with dwarfism presented with severe aortic stenosis characterized by markedly thickened, non-calcified fibrotic valve leaflets, confirmed by echocardiography and pathology.
This case report highlights a rare presentation of severe fibrotic, non-calcific aortic stenosis in an adult patient with dwarfism, accurately diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography.
Alerts to rare non-calcific fibrotic AS in dwarfism; hypothesis-generating without practice implications.
In this report, we present an adult patient with dwarfism who had severe aortic stenosis with markedly thickened fibrotic valve leaflets without calcification. These findings were well demonstrated by both two- and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and confirmed at surgery and by pathological examination.
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Huang et al. (2000) studied this question. An adult patient with dwarfism presented with severe aortic stenosis characterized by markedly thickened, non-calcified fibrotic valve leaflets, confirmed by echocardiography and pathology.
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