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Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Abnormalities

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Aortic valve stenosis refers to a narrowing of the lumen of the aortic valve. It is the most common cardiac valvular condition requiring valve replacement. Congenital stenosis is the most common cause of aortic valve stenosis. It is usually associated with anomalous valves, most commonly the bicuspid aortic valve. The congenitally stenotic aortic valve also may be unicuspid (acommissural or unicommissural) or, rarely, congenitally quadricuspid/quadricommissural. A dysplastic tricuspid aortic valve can also develop stenosis (Fig. 13.1).

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  1. The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center of Greater Cincinnati, The Lindner Center for Research and Education, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Wojciech Mazur & Robert Pelberg

  2. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Marilyn J. Siegel

  3. Department of Clinical Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics, 4th Military Hospital, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Miszalski-Jamka

  4. Center for Diagnosis Prevention and Telemedicine, John Paul II Hospital, Kraków, Poland

    Tomasz Miszalski-Jamka

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Mazur, W., Siegel, M.J., Miszalski-Jamka, T., Pelberg, R. (2013). Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Abnormalities. In: CT Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5088-6_13

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