Thursday, March 14, 2013

Severe aortic stenosis AS

Syncope
Angina
Dyspnea
Systolic Ejection Murmur - at the R 2nd Intercostal Space, may radiate to the Carotid.

Common cause - calcification of the aortic valve leaflets.
These changes appear in the 70th.

Aortic Stenosis with bicuspid aortic valves tends to present by the 6th decade of life.

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