Most of the time, there are three cusps in the aortic valve, but some people are born with two cusps instead of three. This is called a bicuspid aortic valve, and it can sometimes cause problems ...

Aortic valve stenosis is a common and serious heart problem when the valve doesn’t open fully. ... A normal aortic valve has three flaps, or cusps, which fit snugly together.

A bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) means the aortic valve has two — not three — cusps. It is a congenital heart condition, meaning it is present from birth. Read on.

A bicuspid aortic valve is a congenital heart defect that often runs in families. It occurs when a person’s aortic valve contains only two cusps, or flaps, instead of three.

We also reconstructed 3-D aortic valve cusps using CTA imaging to calculate the aortic cusp surface areas. Data were collected to analyze the ratios and the correlation between aortic valve and ...

A certain percentage of the energy by the LV is used during opening of the aortic cusps. In healthy individuals with a normal valve, minimal energy is required to open the pliable cusps and hold ...

THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...

The following report presents 3 cases of intravascular hemolysis that followed aortic-valve replacement with cusps composed of Dacron cloth impregnated with silicone rubber. 8,9 Hematologic data ...

When the aortic valve won’t open all the way because it has narrowed or the cusps have calcified, your heart has to work harder to pump enough blood out of the left ventricle and into your aorta. This ...

Cusp overlap view improved valve positioning and significantly reduced pacemaker need, and hospital stay in TAVR with SEVs.

There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better understand the development of this common disease, researchers from Bochum ...

The aortic valve area can be calculated and measured by planimetry. Detection of sclerodegenerative changes of the aortic cusps in an older asymptomatic individual may be associated with normal ...