The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of tissue called cusps that open and close to keep blood flowing in only one direction . Sometimes, the aortic valve opening narrows – a ...

Most aortic valves have three cusps. A somewhat common heart defect that people are born with is an aortic valve that has only two cusps or leaflets. Many mild cases of aortic valve regurgitation ...

The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...

Which aortic valve cusp is most commonly and least commonly fused in patients with bicuspid aortic valve? The most commonly fused leaflets are the left and right coronary cusps followed by the ...

But in this patient, due to a delay in treatment, the aortic valve cusp prolapse prevented the development of severe pulmonary hypertension by obliterating the VSD almost completely, but this ...