Ch 10 Aortic Valve, Stenosis, and insufficiency Flashcards
What are the 3 components of the aortic root?
- Aortic Valve
- Sinus of Valsalva
- Interleaflet Triangles
What are all the names (List 4) of the 3 aortic cusps?
Cusps
Leaflets
Scallops
Valvules
What is usually the largest aortic valve cusp?
Non-Coronary Cusp
How are the aortic valve cusp named?
Corresponding sinus of Valsalva
What % of people have bicuspid aortic cusp?
2.5%
What is the most common configuration of bicuspid aortic valve?
Left and Right Fusion
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What are Lambl’s Excrescences?
Degenerative Filamentous straings on the ventricular free margin
What is the lunula?
The rim of each valve cusp is slightly thicker than the cusp body and is known as the lunula.
What is the nodule of Arantius?
During diastole, the normal leaflets form a three pointed star with a slight thickening or prominence at the central closing point formed by the aortic leaflet nodules, known as the nodules of Arantius
What is the sinus of valsalva?
Expanded parts of the ascending aorta enclosed superiorily by the STJ and inferiorly by attachment of the valve cusps
What is the role of the sinus of valsalva?
- Important role in AV cusp motion
- Distribution of stress in the cusps
- Act as reservoirs during diastole to perfuse the coronaries
If the sinotubular junction exceeds free margin cusp length, what will happen?
STJ diltation >> Free margin length = Cusp Mal-coaptation and Central AI
If you have isolated annular dilation excluding the STJ
1. What does this do to the commissural height?
2. Cause AI?
Reduces commissural height
Does not cause AI
What two structures make up the free margin of the aortic valve?
Lunula + Nodule of Arantius
The aortic cusp base is what relative length to the free margin length?
The aortic cusp base is 1.5x longer than the free margin length
What is the composition of the aortic valve cusp base at the hing-points?
55% fibrous
45% muscular
(Green in picture)
What aspect of the aortic valve architecture make the valve vulnerable to anuerysm formation?
Crown peaks (Interleaflet triangles) - Red in photo
- Composed of thin fibrous sinus of valsalva walls (Not LV myocardium)
What are the 3 rings that describe the aortic root?
1. Aortic Annulus
- Basal cusp attachments in the LV)
2. Anatomic VA (Ventriculoarterial juntion)
- Ventricular structures changes to fibroelastic aortic wall
3. STJ - Give Structural support
The aortic root forms the transformation of what two structures?
Muscular LV to the Elastic Aorta
What defines the hemodynamic jucntion between the LV and the Aorta?
Cusp Attachment
What pressures are seen by the cusps proximally and distally?
Proximally = Ventricular pressures
Distally = Aortic Pressures
From the ME AV SAX view, how would you manipulate the probe to view the coronary ostia?
Withdraw the Probe
From the ME AV SAX view, how would you manipulate the probe to view the LVOT?
Advance the Probe
In the ME AV LAX view, the RCC is always anterior or posterior?
Anterior
For the ME AV LAX, when in the cardiac cycle do you measure the LVOT, AV, STJ and Ascending Aorta?
Mid-Systole
From what Transgastric view is it best to acquire TG LAX views?
TG Basal Short Axis
In the TG views of the Aortic Valve, which cusp signifies the RCC?
It is always located on the left of the screen
What are the normal aortic root measurements of:
Annulus?
20 - 31 mm
What are the normal aortic root measurements of:
Sinuses of Valsalva?
29 - 45 mm
What are the normal aortic root measurements of:
Sinotubular Junction?
22 - 36 mm
What are the normal aortic root measurements of:
Ascending Aorta?
22 - 36 mm
What is the root height?
What is the typical root height?
Horizontal Distance between STJ - Annulus
< 22 mm
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What are the three levels of aortic stenosis?
- Subvalvular
- Valvular
- Supravalvular
What are the 3 most common etiologies of Aortic Stenosis in America?
- Bicuspid (38%)
- Degenerative Calcification (33%)
- Rheumatic (24%)
Symptoms of AS are not seen usually until the valve area is what size?
< 1.0 cm2
How much does the incidence of death rise each year with critical aortic stenosis?
10% per year
What is the survival rate after AV replacement for AS:
5 years?
10 years?
15 years?
5 = 75%
10 = 61%
15 = 49%
For Calcified aortic stenosis, what is usually calcified? (Specifics)
Aortic annulus and mitro-aortic fibrosa (MAIVF in picture)
Fibrocalcific changes in cusp body
What is a bicuspid valve associated with?
Coarctation of Aorta
Dilated Ascending Aorta
Interrupted Aortic Arch
VSD
ASD
PDA
What age is calcific aortic stenosis seen?
66 +/- 12 years
What age is bicuspid aortic stenosis seen?
48 +/- 6 years
What age is rheumatic aortic stenosis seen?
39 +/- 18 years
What is the appearance of rheumatic aortic stenosis?
Thick, Calcified Free Edge
Calcific nodules on both surfaces
Commissural fusion
Chordal Shortening
In Rheumatic AS, what is also seen almost always?
Mitral valve pathology (Isolated AS from Rheumatic is rare)