Mechanical Mitral Valve Avulsion and Mitral-Aortic Junction Pseudoaneurysm Following Surgical Treatment of Mitral Valve Aneurysm and Severe Aortic Insufficiency in a Patient With Spondyloarthropathy: A Rarity With a Possible Association

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Nov 25:e017449. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017449. Online ahead of print.

Hongxia Ning^#^{1

2}, Jiajing Ouyang^#^{1

2}, Jun Yang^{1

2}, Zongyi Xiu³, Tianxiang Gu³, Yang Bai^{1

2}, Chunyan Ma^{1

2}

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning. (H.N., J.O., J.Y., Y.B., C.M.).
² Clinical Medical Research Center of Imaging in Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China (H.N., J.O., J.Y., Y.B., C.M.).
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning. (Z.X., T.G.).

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: aortic insufficiency; mitral valve aneurysm; mitral valve avulsion; pseudoaneurysm; spondyloarthropathy.