Abstract

Methods Our prospective matched-pair study included 18 patients (median age 25 years, range 8 - 44 years) with a native bicuspid aortic valve and normal diameters of the ascending aorta, without stenosis or insufficiency of the aortic valve and no coarctation of the aorta. According to a predefined classification, the helical flow patterns were graded.

Details

Title
Visualization of flow in the ascending aorta: bicuspid aortic valves compared to tricuspid aortic valves
Author
Meierhofer, Christian; Lyko, Christine; Schneider, Eike Philipp; Hutter, Andrea; Stern, Heiko; Martinoff, Stefan; Hager, Alfred; Hess, John; Markl, Michael; Fratz, Sohrab
First page
P384
Publication year
2011
Publication date
2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
10976647
e-ISSN
1532429X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-S1-P384
ProQuest document ID
902260719
Copyright
© 2011 Meierhofer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.