The aortic valve with four leaflets: how should we best describe this blue moon?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
² UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 100 UCLA, Medical Plaza Driveway Suite 690, Los Angeles, CA, 90095 USA.
³ Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, 501 6th Ave S St. Petersburg, FL, 33701 USA.
⁴ Cardiovascular Research Centre, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE17RU UK.

Editorial

Justin T Tretter et al. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 22;22(7):777-780.

doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jeaa420.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
² UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 100 UCLA, Medical Plaza Driveway Suite 690, Los Angeles, CA, 90095 USA.
³ Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, 501 6th Ave S St. Petersburg, FL, 33701 USA.
⁴ Cardiovascular Research Centre, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE17RU UK.

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Prevalence, multimodality imaging characterization, and mid-term prognosis of quadricuspid aortic valves: an analysis of eight cases, based on 160 004 exams performed during 12 years in a tertiary care hospital.
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