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The congenital bicuspid aortic valve can experience high-frequency unsteady shear stresses on its leaflet surface.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 15 Sept 2012
Yap Choon Hwai, Saikrishnan Neelakantan, Tamilselvan Gowthami, Vasilyev Nikolai, Yoganathan Ajit P
Abstract excerpt
The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a common congenital malformation of the aortic valve (AV) affecting 1% to 2% of the population. The BAV is predisposed to early degenerative calcification of valve leaflets, and BAV patients constitute 50% of AV stenosis patients. Although evidence shows that genetic defects can play a role in calcification of the BAV leaflets, we hypothesize that drastic changes in the...
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