TAVI in bicuspid aortic valve stenosis

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease is the most common congenital cardiac anomaly and is a prominent risk factor for premature aortic valve disease, most commonly aortic stenosis [1]. BAV has historically been detected using 2-dimensional echocardiography; however, compared with pathologic analysis of BAV removed at the time of surgery, echocardiography detects only congenital BAV morphology in 58 –66% of cases [2,3]. Therefore, the use of three-dimensional imaging, mainly ECG-gated computed tomography (CT), is fundamentally required in the diagnosis and definition of the complex [4] and variable BAV anatomy (Fig.

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - October 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ashraf Hamdan, Ran Kornowski Source Type: research