{"id":151,"date":"2007-08-29T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/29\/bicuspid-aortic-valve-pictures\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T14:21:18","slug":"bicuspid-aortic-valve-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/29\/bicuspid-aortic-valve-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Any Bicuspid Aortic Valve Pictures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just received an email asking, &#8220;Do you have any pictures of a bicuspid aortic valve?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, considering I had a bicuspid aortic valve for the first 33 years of my life, I definitely researched and located pictures of bicuspid aortic valves for my book.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see below, the aortic valve on the left is normal &#8211; the valve has three leaflets and three cusps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bicuspid &amp; Tricuspid Aortic Valve Drawings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/bicuspid-aortic-valve-picture.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"103\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Normal and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Diagrams<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The valve on the right, however, is a bicuspid aortic valve. As you look at the diagram, you will note that the bicuspid heart valve only has two leaflets and two cusps. To learn more about BAV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/bicuspid-aortic-valve-symptoms.php\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This can become very problematic if the valve calcifies and becomes diseased with the condition known as aortic stenosis.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of a calcified aortic valve with stenosis:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/calcified-aortic-valve-bicuspid.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Picture Of Calcified Bicuspid Aortic Valve<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Well. I hope that wasn&#8217;t too graphic for you. Those are some pictures of normal aortic valve, bicuspid aortic valves and calcified aortic valves.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicuspid-aortic-valve"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}