Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Bicuspid aortic valve is the most common congenital heart defect, that affects 2% of population. It's a risk factor for developing infective endocarditis. It might be:

• isolated (insignificant defect with systolic heart murmur) or as a part of other heart defects (such as coarctation of the aorta)
• combined with coarctation of the aorta

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Related Articles

• Congenital heart defects
• Dromotropic
• Chronotropy
• Inotropy

Source

• Pastor, J.: Langenbeck's medical web page
• KLENER, P, et al. Vnitřní lékařství. 3. edition. Praha : Galén, 2006. ISBN 80-7262-431-8.

• ŠVÍGLEROVÁ, Jitka. Bathmotropy [online]. The last revision 2009-02-18, [cit. 2010-11-12]. <https://web.archive.org/web/20160416213030/http://wiki.lfp-studium.cz/index.php/Batmotropie>.