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Table 1 Demographics and aortic dimensions in controls and bicuspid aortic valve patients

From: Aortic flow patterns and wall shear stress maps by 4D-flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the assessment of aortic dilatation in bicuspid aortic valve disease

 

Healthy Controls

RL-BAV

RN-BAV

p-value

N

20

78

23

 

Age (years)

50.04 ± 16.39

48.43 ± 13.15

46.97 ± 16.00

0.659

Men (%)

73.30

62.80

65.20

0.736

Weight (kg)

78.57 ± 9.24

76.17 ± 10.38

76.17 ± 10.38

0.270

Height (cm)

169.42 ± 7.73

170.00 ± 10.66

172.00 ± 9.91

0.433

Body Surface Area (m2)

1.89 ± 0.13

1.83 ± 0.21

1.88 ± 0.16

0.278

Degree of Aortic Regurgitation (%)

   

0.240

 0

26.8

35.3

 

 1

21.1

5.9

 

 2

49.3

47.0

 

 3

2.8

11.8

 

Degree of Aortic Stenosis (%)

   

0.695

 Absent

92.9

90

 

 Mild

5.7

10

 

 Moderate

1.4

0

 

Maximum aortic velocity (m/s)

97.34 ± 19.0

111.15 ± 24.35

119.32 ± 21.22

0.067

Mean pressure gradient (mm Hg)

3.24 ± 1.21

4.9 ± 1.13

5.69 ± 1.71

0.074

Systolic Arterial Pressure (mm Hg)

136.26 ± 19.47

134.18 ± 17.32

142 ± 17.76

0.064

Diastolic Arterial Pressure (mm Hg)

76.73 ± 8.85

75.72 ± 9.06

79.69 ± 9.11

0.133

Sinus of Valsalva Diameter (mm)

32.77 ± 3.44

36.68 ± 5.10

34.78 ± 2.69

0.796

Ascending Aorta Diameter (mm)

35.58 ± 2.96

39.86 ± 7 .51

40.30 ± 6.10

0.070

z-score sinus of Valsalva diameter

0.01 ± 0.84

1.41 ± 1.29

0.82 ± 1.11

0.001

z-score ascending aorta diameter

0.02 ± 0.71

2.87 ± 1.71

3.03 ± 1.4

< 0.001

  1. P-values reported are the result of ANOVA comparison between 3 groups: controls, RL-BAV and RN-BAV in continuous variables and Chi-square test for categorical variables