Family screening in patients with isolated bicuspid aortic valve : Restriction to those with aortic dilatation is not justified.

Luc CozijnsenR L BraamM Bakker-de BooA M OttenJ G PostT SchermerB J BoumaB J M Mulder

Published in: Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation (2021)

Screening FDRs of patients with isolated BAV resulted in a reasonable yield of 14% new cases of BAV or isolated aortic dilatation. A trend towards an increased risk of BAV in FDRs was observed in the probands with previous AVS, whereas this risk seemed to be diminished in the probands with associated aortic dilatation. This latter finding does not support the restrictive ACC/AHA recommendation.

Keyphrases

aortic valve
aortic stenosis
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
transcatheter aortic valve implantation
aortic valve replacement
left ventricular
pulmonary artery
atrial fibrillation
coronary artery