Research Article

NOTCH1 Mutations in Aortic Stenosis: Association with Osteoprotegerin/RANK/RANKL

Table 3

Echocardiographic parameters from patients with aortic stenosis.

Patients with BAV M ± SDPatients with TAV M ± SD value

AVA, cm20.73
AVA/BSA, cm2/m20.78
Peak aortic velocity, m/s0.28
Mean pressure gradient, mmHg0.61
, %0.90
LVEDD, mm0.56
Ascending aorta, mm0.87
Aortic sinus, mm0.19
LVMM, g0.52
LVMI, g/m20.61
RWT, mm0.74

AVA: aortic valve area; AVA/BSA: aortic valve area indexed for body surface area; aorta max: antegrade velocity across the narrowed aortic valve; P-mean: the mean transvalvular pressure; EF: ejection fraction; LVEDD: left ventricle end diastolic diameter; RWT: relative wall thickness; LVMM: left ventricular myocardial mass; LVMI: indexed left ventricular mass.