The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...

The diagnosis of a bicuspid aortic valve was confirmed when two cusps and two commissures were ... 12 The echocardiography examination also included evaluation of all additional anatomical or ...

The slightly abnormal flow through bicuspid ... calcified valve that cannot open completely. More commonly people with aortic ...

These include ejection sounds that occur with pulmonic or AS heard in early systole, “clicks” that are heard in mitral or tricuspid ... indicates a bicuspid aortic valve.