Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infectious disease that affects the endothelium of the large intrathoracic vessels, heart valves, and intra-cardiac foreign body material. A 20-year-old woman was admitted to the cardiology department with complaints of fever and palpitations. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a bicuspid aortic valve, aortic root enlargement, and aortic coarctation. Trans...

We shared our experience of surgical treatment a giant aneurysm the ascending aorta (11 cm) in female patient with bicuspid valve, arterial hypertension and severe obesity. performed aortic valve replacement supracoronary prosthetic aorta. She showed improvement clinical status, echocardiography, was discharged followed up for 5 months after operation. Control computed tomography angiography de...

Thrombosis in a native aortic valve is a rare complication which may lead to systemic embolization. A few cases of aortic thrombosis in previously abnormal valves have been described. In this report, we describe a 42-year-old male who suffered two acute ischaemic attacks, one in the upper right limb and another in the cerebral territory supplied by the left sylvian artery, from a thrombus that ...

BACKGROUND In patients with bicuspid aortic valve and dilated proximal ascending aorta, we sought to assess (1) factors associated with increased longer-term cardiovascular mortality and (2) incremental prognostic use of indexing aortic root to patient height. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 969 consecutive bicuspid aortic valve patients (50±13 years; 87% men) with proximal aorta ≥4 cm, who al...

BACKGROUND Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is one of the most common and important congenital heart disorders in adults. If a patient with congenital disorders is not diagnosed early, the patient's disease may progress to a severe condition and thus diagnosis of the main disorder will be rendered difficult. CASE REPORT A 34 year-old male patient referred to a referral medical care unit for cardia...

The technical details of aortic valve reimplantation as a treatment for aortic root aneurism with or without aortic valve insufficiency has been previously described in several studies (1,2). Variations in the aortic valve reimplantation operation have been developed, with the common goal of achieving not only perfect intraoperative results, but also long-term stability. The Valsalva graft (Vas...

A 19-year-old woman with a bicuspid aortic valve was admitted because of active infective endocarditis with a root abscess. Four weeks of antibiotic therapy achieved negative blood cultures and normalized inflammatory signs; however, echocardiography revealed severe aortic regurgitation through an abscess cavity located at the root. The modified Ross procedure, in which the pulmonary autograft ...

A 28-year-old man with infective endocarditis of the aortic valve underwent a course of antibiotic therapy, but developed severe aortic root deformity requiring aortic root replacement with a mechanical composite valve conduit. Of note, this patient had undergone a previous aortic valve operation for bicuspid valve stenosis, and indurations and fragility of the aortic root caused by the precedi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation of hyperlipidaemia to calcific aortic valve stenosis. DESIGN A case-control study designed to detect a clinically relevant difference in the fasting plasma concentrations of total cholesterol between the groups at the 5% level with a power of 90%. Predefined subgroup analyses were based on presence of significant coronary disease and valve morphology (tha...