Threshold for Aortic Replacement in Bicuspid Aortic Valve

A panel of experts debates the threshold for aortic replacement in bicuspid-aortic-valve-related aortopathy. Mohamad Bashir of Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom, moderates the lively discussion with Joseph Bavaria of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Munir Boodhwani of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Gebrine El Khoury of Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Joseph Coselli of the Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Hans-Hinrich Sievers of the Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Lübeck, Germany; Edward P. Chen of Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Himanshu Patel of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Thomas Gleason of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.