1. Feasibility of Valve Repair for Regurgitant Bicuspid Aortic Valves—An Echocardiographic Study 
Patrick J. Nash, MB, MRCPI, Eugene Vitvitsky, MD, Jianbo Li, PhD, Delos M. Cosgrove, MDFACC, Gosta Pettersson, MDPhD, Richard A. Grimm, DOFACC 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 79, Issue 5, Pages (May 2005)
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2. Fig 1
Outline of procedures performed. Early reoperation refers to need for repeat operation before discharge from hospital. No patients who had valve replacement required a subsequent “pump-run” or early reoperation.
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3. Fig 2
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiographic long-axis view of a bicuspid valve with anterior cusp prolapse (A) with color Doppler showing the resulting posteriorly directed jet of aortic regurgitation (B).
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4. Fig 3
Transesophageal long-axis view of a bicuspid valve with a central jet of aortic regurgitation.
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5. Fig 4
Transesophageal view of a bicuspid valve (right coronary and left coronary cusp fusion) with evidence of severe anterior commissural thickening and commissural calcification (white arrow).
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