The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...

The mitral valve (bicuspid valve) has two cusps or leaflets. Usually, the tricuspid valve has three cusps. Sometimes there may be two or four cusps. Upturn or prolapse of the AV valves during ...

Complications weren’t more common when leads were extracted. Yet there’s also the option of “jailing” leads instead.

Where this device will fit in with other emerging options remains to be seen, but it might hold an advantage in large annuli.

The funding will be put towards an early feasibility study, designed to determine the clinical effectiveness and safety of Laplace’s transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement system. If ...

While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated ... In the latter group, 41 patients were subsequently demonstrated to have tricuspid valves, leaving only 22 with uncertain AV morphology.

The slightly abnormal flow through bicuspid aortic valves puts extra ... with aortic stenosis have three normal appearing ...

These include ejection sounds that occur with pulmonic or AS heard in early systole, “clicks” that are heard in mitral or tricuspid ... indicates a bicuspid aortic valve.

Objective In this study, the impact of regular training on left ventricle morphology in a group of athletes with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV ... with a group of 56 athletes with a normal tricuspid ...