Congratulations to Breandan, co authors and clinical collaborator Dr. Vinod Thourani for their publication in Current Cardiology Reports titled “Treatment of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis with TAVR: Filling Knowledge Gaps Towards Reducing Complications”.
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease is the most common congenital heart defect worldwide. When severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis ensues, the treatment has increasingly become transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The purpose of this review is to identify BAV classification and imaging methods, outline TAVR outcomes in BAV anatomy, and discuss how computational modeling can enhance TAVR treatment in BAV patients.