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Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a common congenital heart defect where the aortic valve has two leaflets (cusps) instead of the usual three, resulting in abnormal blood flow and development of aortic ...

A deep registry dive provides more evidence that patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis at increased risk for surgery can safely undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement, with results showing ...

The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are fused ...

Reassurance on the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with bicuspid valve stenosis has come from a new large observational dataset. TAVR has become the established ...

While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated with aortic dilation and dissection, the risk of dissection in this population has recently been called into question. Michelena and colleagues ...

Two new analyses in low-risk patients suggest that clinical outcomes are as good in patients with congenital bicuspid anatomy undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation as it is in those with ...

Genetic variants linked to a rare form of bicuspid aortic valve disease that affects young adults and can lead to dangerous and potentially life-threatening aortic complications have been identified ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bicuspid aortic valve fusion was associated with regional wall shear stress distribution, systolic flow ...

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he had undergone a procedure at the Cleveland Clinic to replace his aortic valve. He tweeted: "Thanks to the team at the Cleveland ...