Summary: international consensus statement on nomenclature and classification of the congenital bicuspid aortic valve and its aortopathy, for clinical, surgical, interventional and research purposes

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ² Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Ciber-CV, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁶ ?>Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, Ciber-CV, Málaga, Spain.
• ⁷ MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado, USA.
• ⁹ ?>Cardiovascular Division, American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹⁰ ?>Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• ¹² ?>Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• ¹³ ?>Department of Cardiac Sciences, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ¹⁶ Cardiothoracic Imaging Division, Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France.
• ¹⁸ ?>Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹⁹ ?>Department of Biomedical Imaging Science, Leeds Institute to Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
• ²⁰ ?>Department of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila"-Euroecolab, Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases "Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu", Bucharest, Romania.
• ²¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ²² ?>Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS; CIBERCV, ISCIII (CB16/11/00354); CERCA Programme.
• ²³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Marcus Valve Center, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ²⁴ ?>Department of Cardiology, Québec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
• ²⁵ ?>Department of Cardiology, University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège,Belgium.
• ²⁶ ?>Gruppo Villa Maria Care and Research, Maria Cecilia Hospital, Cotignola, Italy.
• ²⁷ Anthea Hospital, Bari, Italy.
• ²⁸ University Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
• ²⁹ Yale University School of Medicine & Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ³⁰ St Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• ³¹ Cardiac Registry, Departments of Cardiology, Pathology and Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³³ Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ³⁴ Cardiovascular Medicine Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ³⁵ Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
• ³⁶ Texas A & M School of Medicine, Dallas, TX, USA.
• ³⁷ University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
• ³⁸ Department of Radiology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ³⁹ Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁴¹ Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁴² Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁴³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁴⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, European Hospital and Unicamillus University, Rome, Italy.
• ⁴⁶ Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁴⁷ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Saar, Germany.