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Congenital heart disease
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Acute heart failure with new-onset continuous murmur in a 26-year-old man
  1. Yi-Chen Wang1,
  2. Chen-Wei Huang2,
  3. Ting-Wei Lin1
  1. 1 Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
  2. 2 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ting-Wei Lin, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70428, Taiwan; lintingwei.tw{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312506

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    Clinical introduction

    A 26-year-old man with an unremarkable medical history sensed a momentary retrosternal ‘pop’ followed by overwhelming dyspnoea, without reporting any prodromal symptoms. At the emergency department, he had a significant tachycardia (170 bpm) and an extreme low diastolic blood pressure (<30 mm Hg). A loud, harsh and continuous murmur could be maximally auscultated at the right lower sternal border. ECG revealed global ST depression with ST elevation in lead aVR. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed severe aortic insufficiency and a high index of suspicion for a congenital cardiac anomaly; however, findings remained inconclusive. Transoesophageal echocardiography (figure 1A,B, online supplementary videos 1 and 2), cardiac CT (online supplementary figure 1A) and cardiac catheterisation (online supplementary figure 1B, supplementary video 3) were performed for diagnostic confirmation.

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    Figure 1

    (A) Short-axis view of transoesophageal echocardiography. …

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    Footnotes

    • C-WH and T-WL contributed equally.

    • Contributors All authors have substantial contribution to the manuscript.

    • Funding The study was funded by the National Cheng Kung University Hospital (10.13039/501100004844), grant number NCKUH-10603019.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Ethics approval The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of National Cheng Kung University Hospital A-EC-107001.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Correction notice Since this image challenge was first added online the IRB approval ID has been added in the footnotes.