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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(1):63-64; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2006.08.014
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2006. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Discrete subaortic stenosis in elderly women

Pier Giorgio Masci*, Francesca Rossi and Francesco Chiarella

Unità Operativa di Cardiologia, A.O. Santa Corona, Via XXV Aprile 128, 17027 Pietra Ligure, Italy

Received 4 August 2006; accepted after revision 29 August 2006; online publish-ahead-of-print 11 October 2006.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 019 6234348; fax: +39 019 6234483. E-mail address: pgmasci{at}tiscali.it


  Abstract

Discrete subaortic stenosis (DSS) is likely an acquired cardiac disorder which requires anatomic precursors and a genetic background. DSS occurs usually within the first decade, provoking rapidly progressive left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and secondary aortic regurgitation. DSS has been considered for a long time exclusively a disease of infancy and childhood and few reports and small series have described DSS in adulthood and only two cases are reported in elderly. Our case describes a discrete subaortic membranous ridge in an elderly woman with recent onset of dyspnea.

Keywords: Discrete subaortic stenosis; Elderly


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