Thoracic Key

Age: 31 Gender: Female Occupation: Nurse Working diagnosis: Aortic recoarctation HISTORY When the patient was 5 years old, the diagnosis of coarctation of the aorta was made after a murmur…

Age: 17 years Gender: Male Occupation: Student Working diagnosis: Subaortic stenosis HISTORY Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) was diagnosed soon after birth. No other health issues were identified, however, and the…

Age: 47 years Gender: Female Occupation: Elementary school teacher Working diagnosis: Subaortic stenosis HISTORY The patient was noted to have a heart murmur at age 5. She was referred to…

Age: 57 years Gender: Male Occupation: Logistics planner Working diagnosis: Pulmonary stenosis with prior Ross repair HISTORY Aortic regurgitation was diagnosed when the patient was 23 years old. The patient…

Age: 33 Gender: Female Occupation: Housewife Working diagnosis: Subaortic stenosis HISTORY The patient had been diagnosed with mild subaortic stenosis in early childhood but did not require intervention. She had…

Age: 26 years Gender: Female Lifestyle information: Active athlete and traveler, engaged to be married Working diagnosis: Aortic insufficiency and neoaortic root dilatation HISTORY The patient was born with a…

Age: 31 Gender: Female Occupation: Salesperson Working diagnosis: Palpitations HISTORY The patient was first noted to have a murmur at age 6 years. The murmur was felt to be a…

Age: 27 years Gender: Female Working diagnosis: Down syndrome HISTORY The patient has Down syndrome and was suspected to have cardiac disease shortly after birth. Echocardiography, however, showed only a…

Age: 32 years Gender: Female Occupation: Nurse’s assistant Working diagnosis: Atrial septal defect with pulmonary arterial hypertension HISTORY The patient was well until 10 years ago (22 years old) when…

Age: 30 years Gender: Female Occupation: Mother Working diagnosis: Atrioventricular septal defect HISTORY As a child, the patient was diagnosed with a partial AVSD (ostium primum ASD). Corrective surgery was…