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Background Aortic dilatation is common among adults with bicuspid aortic valves (BAV). Predictors of risk and progression of aortic dilatation are not well described in this setting. Methods We ...
Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy is a major predictor of AoR dilatation in hypertensive subjects, independent of age, body size and gender. 6, 7 This observation argues against the notion that ...
Postprocedural aortic regurgitation occurs in 10 to 20% of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) for aortic stenosis. We hypothesized that assessment of defects in ...
Filip Hammaréus, PhD student, and Petter Dyverfeldt, professor, at Linköping University. The research was performed at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Linköping, Sweden.
Dr. Amy A. Sarma: A 54-year-old man was evaluated at this hospital because of new heart failure. One month before this evaluation, a nonproductive cough developed after the patient took a business ...
In principle, the blood volume passing through a stenotic valve (aortic stenosis) is equal to the blood volume proximal to the stenosis or in the LVOT (Figure 4). The stroke volume is equal to ...