A larger aortic annulus causes aortic regurgitation and a smaller aortic annulus causes aortic stenosis in bicuspid aortic valve

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-248

  Sonoda, Makoto ^a   Takenaka, Katsu ^b   Uno, Kansei ^a   Ebihara, Aya ^b   Nagai, Ryozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic insufficiency; Aortic stenosis; Bicuspid aortic valve; Doppler; Transpharyngeal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40149084512     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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