Introduction to the Aortic Valve Disease Review Series.
Introduction to the Aortic Valve Disease Review Series.
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DOI:
10.1161/circresaha.121.319286
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发表时间:
2021-04-30
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
St Hilaire C
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作者:
Cuevas RA;St Hilaire C
The familiar lub-dub, lub-dub of your beating heart, comes from the turbulence created by the closure of the heart valves. The aortic valve, which along with the pulmonary valve creates the dub, opens and closes on average 75 times a minute, 108 000 times a day, and by the time you are 50, this movement has occurred nearly 2 billion times. Proper sealing of the aortic valve leaflets ensures the unidirectional flow of blood from the left ventricle into the aorta. Alterations in valve leaflet homeostasis, due to congenital morphological anomalies such as bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), or the chronic progression of stiffening, thickening, and calcification, cause disturbed and obstructed outflow, which may induce thrombotic events leading to stroke or heart failure. It was once thought that the fibrocalcific remodeling, commonly and herein referred to as calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD), was a degenerative consequence of this repetitive movement, however, it is now fully appreciated that CAVD pathogenesis is a biologically active and complex process.For this review series focused on the aortic valve, we have selected leaders in the field to introduce and discuss the current advances regarding the role of genetics, development, and external stresses that promote pathological valve remodeling, the next-generation technologies that are currently being used to further elucidate these processes, as well as the state of therapeutic options available to patients with severe CAVD. The series begins with a primer on the genetic and developmental contributors to aortic stenosis in morphologically normal and malformed valves. While it is accepted that the presence of valve malformations at birth is likely the result of a faulty developmental