title: Isolated bicuspid pulmonary valve in adult diagnosed by three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.
abstract: Isolated bicuspid pulmonary valve is a rare arterial valve anomaly with very few reports in the literature, which regard overall cases of postmortem diagnosis. However, the true incidence of bicuspid pulmonary valve could be underestimated because of the difficulty in imaging pulmonary valve morphology with conventional two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). We report a case of isolated bicuspid pulmonary valve in an adult diagnosed by three-dimensional TTE. Off line multidimensional analysis of full-volume 3D allowed to obtain a short axis view of pulmonary valve showing a bicuspid valve characterized by an anterior and a posterior cups, normally thickened and with preserved systolic opening.
authors.affiliation: Studio di Cardiologia Dr Tagliareni srl, Via Carducci 139, Ragusa, Italy. effetaglia@gmail.com
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tagliareni
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: D'Aleo
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sanfilippo
authors.forename: Antonino
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tagliareni
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging