Rheumatic mitral stenosis: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Dec 6, 2022 · The most common cause of MS is rheumatic heart disease with mitral commissural fusion; thickened mitral valve leaflets with restricted motion at the leaflet tips; and thickening, …
Commissural geometry and cusp fusion insights to guide bicuspid …
In the 180° reimplantation technique, we transform the BAV geometry into a symmetric configuration with CO of 180°. This entails the proximal basal ring; the valve leaflets, creating …
Mitral Commissurotomy - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Oct 28, 2024 · Mitral commissurotomy is a surgical procedure that relieves mitral valve stenosis by separating fused commissures of the mitral valve leaflets, thereby improving blood flow …
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Bicuspid Aortic …
Jun 16, 2021 · As BAV includes a variety of morphological abnormalities (eg, undeveloped cusp, cusp fusion by raphe, acquired commissural fusion, etc), 1 it is recommended to obtain a …
Rheumatic aortic valve disease—when and who to repair? - PMC
May 1, 2019 · Some rheumatic aortic valves have obvious commissural fusion that can be dealt with by sharp dissection which, if carried out alone, residual gradient would result from stiff …
Rationale, Definitions, Techniques, and Outcomes of Commissural ...
The degree of commissural misalignment correlates to the risk of overlap between neocommissures and native coronary ostia. Fuchs et al 9 first evaluated the issue of …
Mitral Valve Repair Center
Mar 13, 2018 · Sometimes the commissures exist as well defined leaflet segments, but more often this area is a subtle structure, and can be identified using two anatomic landmarks: the axis of …
Percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy in adults
Jun 28, 2024 · Rheumatic MS — The vast majority of patients undergoing PMBC have rheumatic MS. Commissural fusion is a key feature of rheumatic MS, and splitting of fused commissures …
COMMISURAL FUSION AS ETIOLOGY OF SEVERE EARLY STENOSIS …
Early (<5 years) structural valve degeneration (SVD) causing stenosis is rare and is caused by leaflet fibrosis and/or calcification. We report a unique case of severe early SVD due to …
Is the type of aortic cusp fusion and commissural orientation a predicting factor for failure of aortic valve repair in BAV patients?