| 11. | The first picture showed that 43 patients had damaged aortic valves.
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| 12. | They offer patients who need aortic valve replacements another important option for treatment.
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| 13. | Hearn received a new aortic valve during the 2 1 / 2-hour operation.
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| 14. | In 1962 Ross introduced the use of homografts to replace diseased aortic valves.
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| 15. | In this condition, instead of three cusps, the aortic valve has two cusps.
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| 16. | This method assumes that the aortic valve does not suffer from aortic insufficiency.
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| 17. | Similar to tricuspid aortic valves the cusps must be measured to rule out shrinkage.
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| 18. | Valvuloplasty is an important part of the procedure to deploy a percutaneous aortic valve.
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| 19. | The aortic valve alsocan malfunction when the aorta dilates markedly.
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| 20. | The free margins of valve cusps no longer approximate leading to aortic valve insufficiency.
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