Publications by authors named "Constantin Caraion"
Rom J Morphol Embryol
October 2021
Article Synopsis
- - Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common heart valve defect and can lead to serious issues like aortic stenosis (AS) and insufficiency (AI), sometimes accompanied by an ascending aortic aneurysm (AAA).
- - A study conducted from 2015 to 2018 with 105 BAV patients in Romania found that 14 of them had AAA, leading to surgeries that evaluated the effectiveness of two interventions: reduction ascending aortoplasty (RAA) and ascending aorta replacement (AAR).
- - Results indicated that while RAA can be beneficial in the short term, it is less effective than AAR due to a tendency for aortic redilatation over time, unders
