Although aortic valvular sclerosis and aortic stenosis (AS) have long been thought of as two independent entities, they are now considered to be different stages of the same process.
We are repor ting herein a 6-year- old boy with progeria, who presented with respiratory infection and cardiac failure and was confirmed to have cardiovascular atherosclerotic changes, which included a characteristic systolic (sclerotic) murmur of valvular sclerosis, and signs of congestive cardiac failure.