title: Isolated thickening of one aortic cusp: preferential thickening of the noncoronary cusp.
abstract: Over a 2-year period we identified 197 patients with the previously undescribed finding of isolated thickening of one aortic cusp. The noncoronary cusp was involved most frequently in 56% (p less than 0.01), followed by the right coronary cusp in 35%, and the left coronary cusp in 9%. Isolated thickening of one aortic cusp occurs more commonly in male patients (64%) (p less than 0.01) and at an earlier age (65 years) than mitral annular calcification (70 years) (p less than 0.001).
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cujec
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pollick
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000473:pathology