Quadricuspid aortic valve; a rare cause of aortic insufficiency
An asymptomatic 32-year-old Afro-Caribbean gentleman underwent transthoracic echocardiography after a routine cardiovascular examination identified an early diastolic murmur. Severe aortic insufficiency in the background of a quadricuspid aortic valve was seen on the echocardiography (figs 1 and 2; videos 1 and 2). All …
Sandeep Basavarajaiah +2 more
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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement 23 years after heart transplant for aortic insufficiency
Background Clinicians continue to expand the availability of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for patients who historically would have been ineligible for surgical aortic valve replacement.
Andrew Jones +4 more
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Repair in traumatic ascending aortic rupture and valve insufficiency [PDF]
An 18-year-old patient who had chronic traumatic ascending aortic lesion and valve insufficiency, with severe LV dysfunction, was treated by repair of the aortic wall without prosthesis and of the aortic valve by a gluteraldehyde-treated autologous ...
Antunes, MJ +3 more
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Quadricuspid aortic valve associated with aortic insufficiency contributors
A 51-year-old male presented with a wound in his right hand that was suspicious for possible septic emboli of cardiac origin. With transesophageal echocardiography, the patient was found to have a rare quadricuspid aortic valve. This quadricuspid valve can present with variable symptoms and physical exam findings.
Gerald P Rosen +4 more
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Late Right Coronary Obstruction Following TAVR in a Degenerated Surgical Aortic Bioprosthetic Valve
We present a case of an 80-year-old woman with severe aortic insufficiency due to a degenerated 21-mm biological prosthetic aortic valve implanted 9 years earlier, treated by using a transcatheter aortic valve replacement valve-in-valve procedure and who
Frederic Bouisset, MD +3 more
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Self-healing of type B acute aortic dissection after aortic valve replacement: a case report
Background As a life-threatening and serious condition, aortic dissection (AD) is divided into type A and B according to its association with the ascending or descending aorta.
Ling Jiang, Xiangrong Xie, Jun Wei
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Spanish named entity recognition in the biomedical domain [PDF]
Named Entity Recognition in the clinical domain and in languages different from English has the difficulty of the absence of complete dictionaries, the informality of texts, the polysemy of terms, the lack of accordance in the boundaries of an entity ...
Cotik, Viviana +2 more
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Impact of aortic valve effective height following valve-sparing root replacement on postoperative insufficiency and reoperation [PDF]
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the impact of anatomic aortic root parameters during valve-sparing root replacement on the probability of postoperative aortic insufficiency and freedom from aortic valve reoperation.
Bakir, Nadia H +6 more
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Quadricuspid Aortic Valve: A Rare Congenital Cause of Aortic Insufficiency [PDF]
Quadricuspid aortic valve (QAV) is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly causing aortic regurgitation usually in the fifth to sixth decade of life. Earlier, the diagnosis was mostly during postmortem or intraoperative, but now with the advent of better imaging techniques such as transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), and ...
Fayez Shamoon +3 more
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OBJECTIVES: The effect of performing aortic valve repair in combination with valve-sparing operation on the length of time for which patients are free from reoperation is unclear.
Ricardo Ribeiro Dias +7 more
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