BACKGROUND: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is one of the most common congenital heart defects with a population prevalence of 0.5% to 1.3%. Identifying patients with BAV is clinically relevant because BAV is associated with aortic stenosis, endocarditis and ascending aorta pathology. METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients with severe aortic stenosis necessitating aortic valve replacement surgery were inclu...

Quadricuspid aortic valve is a rare congenital malformation of the heart leading to significant aortic regurgitation or stenosis. Its diagnosis by transthoracic echocardiography is difficult. Most of the cases are diagnosed during surgery or autopsy. Associated abnormalities of the coronary arteries should also be searched, since surgical injury may have devastating results. We herein present a...

The size and function of mechanical heart valves were evaluated in this article. pathological cases that produce valve damage lead to the most well-known rheumatic illnesses have been investigated. They induce stenosis regurgitation valve, whether aortic or mitral, other diseases, such as degenerative, congenital, calcific valves. These occurred between 2015 2020, following are relevant charact...

We present the case of a 22-year-old man with a congenital mixed aortic valve dysfunction who underwent cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the assessment of aortic valve morphology and function prior to valve replacement. Cardiac MRI showed a four-leaf-clover aortic valve morphology, the typical presentation of a quadricuspid aortic valve. The patient underwent a successful Bentall pr...

Bicuspid aortic valve is the most common congenital cardiovascular anomaly, occurring in 1–2% of the population. It has a male predominance and often occurs in multiple members of the same family, suggesting that it may have an autosomal dominant inheritance, perhaps with variable penetrance. 2 Much of the data relating to its complications derive from necropsy studies since reliable diagnosis ...

* Four cardiovascular abnormalities account for the great majority of reported cases of sudden cardiac death in young athletes: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a pathologically enlarged heart), congenital (inherited) abnormalities of the coronary arteries, dissecting aortic aneurysms (bulging of the aorta with blood passing between layers of the arterial wall) in athletes with Marfan syndrome (a c...

Among 119 cases of fatal dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, exclusive of those iatrogenically caused or associated with arachnodactyly or aortic stenosis, there were observed 11 cases of congenital bicuspid aortic valve (9%). The ages ranged from 17 to 69 years, five of the patients being 29 years old or younger. Among the latter, three had coarctation of the aorta and one had Turner's syndrome ...

OBJECTIVE To review 12 years of experience of balloon aortic valvoplasty in childhood. DESIGN Early and mid-term clinical and instrumental evaluation of 104 consecutive balloon aortic valvoplasties performed from 1986 to 1998. SETTING A tertiary referral centre for congenital heart disease. PATIENTS 90 patients with congenital aortic stenosis: 20 neonates (group 1), 16 infants (group 2), ...

RECENT REPORTS have indicated that idiopathic infantile hypercalcemia, a disease related to deranged vitamin D metabolism, -4 may be a feature of the nonfamilial, congenital supravalvar aortic stenosis syndrome.5 8 Other manifestations of this syndrome include mental retardation, a peculiar "elfin" facies, narrowing of peripheral pulmonary and systemic arteries, strabismus, inguinal herniae, an...

Combined congenital aortic and pulmonary valvular stenosis is a rare heart defect. Prevalence of severe combined valve accounts about 0.01% also has association with many syndromes. This combination presents unusual diagnostic as well management problems. Apart from few case reports, there little in the literature on both semilunar valves its management. We present this 9 year old boy which was...