The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of the body. So the heart pumps blood through the aortic valve to all the cells in the body.

when one member of a family develops fibromuscular dysplasia, another may develop an abdominal aortic aneurysm. "We used complementary genetic approaches to validate the relationship between these ...

Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of the pulmonary ... Two-dimensional echo showed an aortic coarctation with arch hypoplasia, signs of pulmonary hypertension and a large patent ...