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SUBMITTER: Kwon HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5050315 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwon Hee-Jin HJ Park Jae-Hyeong JH Kim Song Soo SS Sun Byung Joo BJ Jin Sun Ah SA Kim Jun-Hyung JH Lee Jae-Hwan JH Choi Siwan S Jeong Jin-Ok JO Seong In-Whan IW
Journal of cardiovascular ultrasound 20160926 3
Unicuspid aortic valve (UAV) is an extremely rare form of congenital aortic valvular abnormality. Although UAV shows similar clinical characteristics to bicuspid aortic valve, the clinical symptoms develop at earlier age and progress at a faster pace in UAV. In this report, we are presenting a 42-year-old male with severe aortic stenosis associated with unicommissural UAV. The patients underwent a successful Bentall operation. ...[more]