Aortic morphological variability in patients with bicuspid aortic valve and aortic coarctation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to explore aortic morphology and the associations between morphological features and cardiovascular function in a population of patients with bicuspid aortic valve, while further assessing differences between patients with repaired coarctation, patients with unrepaired coarctation and patients without coarctation.

Methods

This is a single-centre retrospective study that included patients with available cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging data and native bicuspid aortic valve diagnosis (n = 525). A statistical shape analysis was performed on patients with a 3-dimensional magnetic imaging resonance (MRI) dataset (n = 108), deriving 3-dimensional aortic reconstructions and computing a mean aortic shape (template) for the whole population as wel

SUBMITTER: Sophocleous F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459283 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature