A sixty-year-old man who presented with dyspnea and palpitations was investigated in this institution and was found to have dextrocardia, single aortic coronary ostium, severe aortic regurgitation, and atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. The association of single aortic coronary ostium and this combination of cardiac abnormalities has not been previously reported.
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