New insights into bicuspid aortic valve disease: the elongated anterior mitral leaflet
Author(s) -
Efstratios I. Charitos,
Thorsten Hanke,
Antje Karluß,
Lutz Hilker,
Ulrich Stierle,
HansHinrich Sievers
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezs152
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , bicuspid aortic valve , stenosis , regurgitation (circulation) , body surface area , aortic valve , mitral valve , ascending aorta , bicuspid valve , mitral regurgitation , aorta
The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is associated with various cardiovascular malformations, most predominantly with dilatation of the aortic root and ascending aorta. After sporadic observations of various BAV-associated mitral valve pathologies, we sought to systematically examine the mitral valve morphology in patients with a BAV.
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