Aortic dilation in bicuspid aortic valve disease: Flow pattern is a major contributor and differs with valve fusion type

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 499-507

  Bissell, Malenka M ^a   Hess, Aaron T ^a   Biasiolli, Luca ^a   Glaze, Steffan J ^a   Loudon, Margaret ^a   Pitcher, Alex ^a   Davis, Anne ^a   Prendergast, Bernard ^b   Markl, Michael ^c   Barker, Alex J ^c   Neubauer, Stefan ^a   Myerson, Saul G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Bicuspid aortic valve; Cardiac MRI; Vascular function; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS;

AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC MRI; VASCULAR FUNCTION; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884476658     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000528     Document Type: Article

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