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How Not to Miss a Bicuspid Aortic Valve in the Echocardiography Laboratory
Author(s) -
Tirrito Salvatore J.,
Kerut Edmund Kenneth
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.04074.x
Subject(s) - section (typography) , bicuspid aortic valve , library science , citation , medicine , center (category theory) , cardiology , aortic valve , computer science , chemistry , crystallography , operating system
Figure 1. M-mode and two-dimensional (2D) diastolic frame in the parasternal long-axis view of a bicuspid aortic valve with eccentric closure (arrows). Although not diagnostic, an eccentric line of closure should prompt one to evaluate the aortic valve closely for BAV. LA = left atrium. (Modified with permission from: Kerut EK, McIlwain, Plotnick: Handbook of Echo-Doppler Interpretation 2nd Ed, Blackwell Publishing, Elmsford, New York, 2004, p. 84) Diagnosis of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) in the busy echocardiography laboratory is important, as it is a relatively common cardiac congenital defect (up to 3% of the population),1 and requires a recommendation for