Aortic root changes before and after surgery for chronic aortic dilatation: A 3D echocardiographic study.
Flavia BalloccaGiulia Maria RuggeriAndrew RoscoeBabitha ThampinathanTirone Esperidiao DavidRoberto M LangMassimiliano MeineriWendy TsangPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)
The aortic valve is a dynamic structure that remodels in response to aortic dilatation. Successful valve-sparing surgery corrects these changes. Quantitative modeling of the aortic valve and root could potentially improve the repair to the individual patients and modify outcomes.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve replacement
- ejection fraction
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- minimally invasive
- chronic kidney disease
- coronary artery bypass
- pulmonary hypertension
- left ventricular
- patient reported outcomes
- prognostic factors
- heart failure
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- pulmonary artery
- adipose tissue
- mass spectrometry