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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1475-1476
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
a Departments of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
b Pediatric Cardiology, The Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland,, USA
c The Heart Center, Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
Accepted for publication July 10, 2003.
* Address reprint requests to Dr Mumtaz, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, M-41, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, USA 44122
mumtazm{at}ccf.org
Aortic insufficiency is not a part of the hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This report describes a rare case of congenital aortic insufficiency from a detached leaflet in a patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and 45,X/46XY mosaicism. The patient was subsequently treated with the modified Norwood procedure along with suture closure of aortic valve.
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