Clinical and morphologic features of the congenitally unicuspid acommissural stenotic and regurgitant aortic valve.
Five adults, aged 30-75 years, are described with stenotic and regurgitant unicuspid acommissural aortic valves. Because none of these patients had clinical, echocardiographic or hemodynamic evidence of mitral valve disease, a case is made that these valves were congenitally malformed and not the result of an acquired condition.
Roberts
William Clifford
WC
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Tex., USA. wc.roberts@baylorhealth.edu
Ko
Jong Mi
JM
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged