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Left aorto-ventricular tunnel is a rare congenital heart disorder. A then 19-year-old young lady was referred to our clinic for chronic rheumatic heart disease with aortic regurgitation. However, because of an almost continuous murmur, and an unusual transthoracic echo, she underwent various investigations, finally revealing a rare type 2 left aorto-ventricular tunnel. She had been variously diagnosed as chronic rheumatic heart disease with aortic regurgitation, bicuspid aortic valve with aortic regurgitation, and then possibly coronary arterial (cameral) fistula (based on 2D transthoracic echo) and finally left aorto-ventricular tunnel. This is the first case described in South East Asia who is asymptomatic, apart from a murmur, and her long journey to this final diagnosis illustrates the need to "chase shadows" on echoes, to come to a proper conclusion for the patient.
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