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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Aug 25;92(4):1384–1389. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.118

Table 3.

Wall stress in the ascending aorta

BAV (n=20) TAV (n=20) P-value
99-percentile wall stress (MPa) 0.54 ± 0.06 0.50 ± 0.09 0.090
99-percentile wall stress normalized for aortic root radius (MPa/cm) 0.28 ± 0.04 0.25 ± 0.03 0.023
99-percentile wall stress normalized for sinotubuluar junction radius (MPa/cm) 0.31 ± 0.06 0.27 ± 0.03 0.013
99-percentile wall stress normalized for maximum ascending aortic radius (MPa/cm) 0.28 ± 0.05 0.24 ± 0.03 0.029

BAV: bicuspid aortic valve; TAV: tricuspid aortic valve