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. 2020 Jan 21;9(2):290. doi: 10.3390/jcm9020290

Table 2.

Characteristics of BAV patients with an aortic event.

All iBAV cBAV p-Value
Number of events
(% of event in group) *
38 (7.6%) 35 (9.3%) 3 (2.5%) 0.016
Age at event 48.0 ± 14.4 48.2 ± 14.3 46.4 ± 19.2 0.821
Type of event
Dissection
Rupture
(% of total in group) *
3 (0.06%)
0
2 (0.5%)
0
1 (0.8%)
0
NA
Surgery
Indication
35 33 (8.7%) 2 (1.7%) 0.007
Valvular dysfunction 21 (4.2%) 21 (5.6%) 0 0.004
(% of total in group) *
AA > 45 mm 13 (2.6%) 13 (3.4%) 0
AA > 50 mm 8 (1.6%) 8 (2.1%) 0
Aortic dilatation 13 (2.6%) 11 (2.9%) 2 (1.7%) 0.743
(% of total in group) *
AA > 50 mm 6 (1.2%) 6 (1.6%) 0
AA > 55 mm 7 (1.4%) 5 (1.3%) 2 (1.7%)
-unknown 1 1 0

NA: not applicable; AA = ascending aorta diameter; * events divided by total patients in the group.