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ArticleCureus2026

Mitral-Aortic Intervalvular Fibrosa Pseudoaneurysm: A Rare and Life-Threatening Presentation.

Gayathry Rajasekharan, Chinthu Sara Jacob, Azad Shams, Ajithkumar Sivasankaran, Parvathy Rajasekharan, Rajasekharan Chandrasekharan

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Gayathry RajasekharanPathology, Government Medical College, Thrissur, IND.
Chinthu Sara JacobGeneral Medicine, Sree Uthradom Thirunal Academy of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram, IND.
Azad ShamsInternal Medicine, Azeezia Institute of Medical Science and Research, Kollam, IND.
Ajithkumar SivasankaranGeneral Medicine, Sree Uthradom Thirunal Academy of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram, IND.
Parvathy RajasekharanOncology, PRS Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, IND.
Rajasekharan ChandrasekharanGeneral Medicine, Sree Uthradom Thirunal Academy of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram, IND.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 40-year-old male with no prior history of cardiac disease or other comorbidities presented to the emergency department with a history of high-grade intermittent fever and breathlessness for two weeks. Examination revealed a febrile patient who had features of mitral regurgitation and aortic regurgitation. A transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) revealed vegetation in the anterior mitral leaflet, along with moderate aortic and mitral regurgitation and a ruptured aortic root abscess that formed dual fistulous tracts in the aortic root. An extremely uncommon complication of infective endocarditis affecting the aortic valve is the development of an abscess in the intervalvular fibrosa (IVF) dual fistula formation. A dual fistulous tract communicating with the aortic root and the ascending aorta is very sparsely described in the literature. A 64-slice computed coronary angiography confirmed a pseudoaneurysm posterior to the aortic root, communicating with the aortic root through a neck and with the left ventricular outflow tract.

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aortic root abscessaorto-cavitary fistulainfective endocarditismitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosapseudoaneurysm

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PMID42306347
PMCPMC13268013

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