TheAnswerPage/Hospital & Critical Care Medicine
Friday
09/03/2010
This week:
Cardiac arrhythmias


We continue our discussion of heart disease today. A 25-year female patient presents for a routine office visit and is noted to have a loud IV/VI systolic ejection murmur at the right upper sternal border. Evaluation by an echocardiogram reveals a bicuspid aortic valve.

  1. How common are bicuspid aortic valves in the general population?
  2. Does bicuspid aortic valve occur more commonly in men or women?
  3. Do patients with bicuspid aortic valves need antibiotic prophylaxis?
  4. What are the indications for intervention in patients with bicuspid aortic valves?

 

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Specialty area:
Cardiac

Category:
Evaluation
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