These classifications may help doctors assess the level of surgical risk when treating bicuspid aortic valves. Doctors may use transthoracic echocardiography to assess the heart valve in people ...

A bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common form of ... in some cases. The use of echocardiography improves the predictive accuracy to about 93%. Treatment depends upon the severity of ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a common congenital heart ... a doctor can screen for BAV in a child using echocardiography. Echocardiography creates pictures of the heart. Experts recommend ...

A normal aortic valve is composed of three aortic-valve cusps, each semilunar in appearance. The leaflets are housed within a small dilatation of the proximal aorta associated with each cusp ...

Although bicuspid aortic valve (BAV)is the most frequently ... diagnosed with BAV by echocardiography from 1980 to 1999 and searched for aortic complications of patients whose bicuspid valves ...

Aim: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV ... investigated with transthoracic echocardiography. The traditional parameters, the aortic root dimensions at four levels and the systolic and diastolic flow of ...

Patients with aortic aneurysms at baseline had an aortic dissection incidence of 44.9 (95% CI, 7.5-138.5). During follow-up, 49 of 384 patients developed aneurysms (RR=86.2; 95% CI, 65.1-114).

Doppler color-flow echocardiography shows a bicuspid aortic valve with an eccentric jet of aortic regurgitation. The left ventricle is moderately enlarged, with an end-diastolic diameter of 66 mm ...

91 underwent contrast CT and had the anatomic morphology of their bicuspid aortic valve classified by the CT laboratory. For the remaining patients, anatomic morphology was classified with either ...

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population. The condition ...