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Aortic Valve

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Native cardiac valves may be involved by dysfunctional states, stenosis and regurgitation, or by vegetations, infective or non-infective. Valves that are surgically excised are examined for a number of reasons: (a) to document the indications for surgery, (b) to correlate pathology with pre-operative clinical diagnosis, hemodynamics, and imaging findings, (c) to document infective endocarditis or rule this out, (d) to determine the etiology of the valvular lesion – its natural history, post-operative prognosis, and association with systemic disease, and (e) to validate new diagnostic imaging techniques [1].

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  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus Carling Ave. 1053, K1Y 4E9, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Dr. John P. Veinot

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Chan, KL., Veinot, J.P. (2010). Aortic Valve. In: Anatomic Basis of Echocardiographic Diagnosis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-387-9_3

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