This condition is associated with an increased risk of aortic dilation, dissection ... embryological development of the aortic valve and the ascending aorta, revealing that defects during early ...

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Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is associated with aortic dilatation. Patterns of dilatation are not well defined and comparison with other aortopathies is lacking. What does this study add In BAV, ...

Background Current guidelines recommend transcatheter aortic valve implantation ... axial CT images fulfilled VARC-2 criteria for PA, namely severe circumferential calcification or severe atheromatous ...

He underwent bi-valvular and ascending aorta replacement, and the presence of Treponema pallidum was confirmed by specific immunohistochemistry and PCR in all tissues, including aortic and mitral ...

functionally bicuspid aortic valve and trace aortic valve insufficiency. The patient had a mildly dilated ascending aorta of 28.5 mm (Z-score = 3.1). There was no evidence of coarctation. At 17 years ...

Myocardial function is evaluated with bright-blood cine images ... from the aortic valve, regurgitant fraction progressively decreases.15 16 Moving the slice location between the aortic sinuses, the ...

New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

which passes blood through the aorta. Until now, a variation in TBX1 had not been explicitly associated with bicuspid aortic valve disease. Mutations in TBX1 and other 22q11.2 genes may cause ...

In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), ...