Highlights a rare echocardiographic presentation of chronic aortic dissection mimicking a double aortic valve.
Echocardiographers should consider dissection flap in apparent double aortic valve; leaves open whether multimodality imaging reduces misdiagnosis risk.
Aortic dissection usually presents as an acute emergency and less commonly presents as chronic dissection. Two-dimensional and transoesophageal echocardiographic features of aortic dissection generally show dissection flap, dilated aorta and aortic regurgitation. We report a very unusual and extremely rare case of a 40-year-old female patient with chronic aortic dissection presenting as functional double aortic valve.
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