Table 1.
Results of ultrasonic stiffness evaluation (stiffness index, SI) at the tubular aortic level.
| Reference | BAV |
Control |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Age (years) | Tubular aorta (mm) | Aortic SI (No. unit) | N | Age (years) | Tubular aorta (mm) | Aortic SI (no unit) | |
| Oulego-Erroz et al., 2013 | 24 | 6.5 ± 5.0 | 20.1 | 7.2 ± 4.5 | 24 | 7.0 ± 5.0 | 16.3 ± 3.5 | 4.1 ± 2.3 |
| Weismann et al., 2016 | 50 | 10.9 (0.2–20.2) | Not provided | 3.5 (1.4–7.5) | 50 | 11 (0.3–17.9) | Not provided | 2.8 (1.5–4.6) |
| Santarpia et al., 2012 | 40 | 20.9 ± 4.7 | 30 ± 0.5 | 6.4 ± 3.5 | 40 | 23.4 ± 3.4 | 2.6 ± 0.3 | 3.9 ± 1.2 |
| Nistri et al., 2008 | 127 | 23 ± 10 | 29.9 ± 5.3 | 7.5 ± 5.0 | 114 | 21 ± 10 | 23.8 ± 4.4 | 3.6 ± 1.89 |
| Drapisz et al., 2013 | 20 | 27 (24–33) | 31 (28–38) | 8.9 (6.5–10.1) | 20 | 30 (25–33) | 26 (24–30) | 3.7 (2.5–4.6) |
| Schaefer et al., 2007 | 29 (1LR) | 43 (1LR) | 32.2 ± 5.1 (1LR) | 6.4 (1LR) | – | – | – | – |
| 29 (1NR) | 39 (1NR) | 31.8 ± 6.4 (1NR) | 9.6 (1NR) | |||||
| Li et al., 2016 | 28 (non-dilated), | 41 | 28.2 ± 4.9, | 8.3 ± 4.9, | 29 | 42 ± 11 | 26.4 ± 3.5 | 5.2 ± 2.7 |
| 29 (dilated) | 49 | 41.0 ± 5.3 | 19.7 ± 14.1 | |||||
| Goudot et al., 2018a | 108 | 48.8 ± 16.6 | 39.7 ± 8.6 | 20.4 ± 31.3 | 148 | 45.6 ± 17.4 | 30.2 ± 5.4 | 12.7 ± 14.8 |
Reference order is presented depending on the age of the population studied.