Table 17 Suggested reporting template for aortic regurgitation
Section | Data / detail |
|---|---|
Demographics | Height, weight, body surface area (BSA) |
| Â | Blood pressure, heart rate and rhythm |
Image quality | Good, fair, poor |
Aortic valve morphology | Tricuspid / bicuspid (± raphe) / uni or quadricuspid |
| Â | Leaflet abnormalities (restriction / prolapse / calcification / perforation, or wide coaptation defect) |
Aortic root | Size, indexed/scaled size, shape, number of sinuses |
Aortic regurgitation severity | Jet width / LVOT diameter ratio |
| Â | Vena contracta width |
| Â | Pressure half time |
| Â | Regurgitant volume and/or regurgitant fraction |
| Â | Effective regurgitant orifice area |
| Â | Presence of flow convergence colour Doppler |
| Â | Continuous wave jet density |
| Â | Presence and severity of diastolic flow reversal in the descending aorta and abdominal aorta |
Additional prognostic markers | Left ventricular dimensions and volumes as absolute and indexed values Left ventricular systolic function and ejection fraction (EF) |
| Â | Global longitudinal strain where available |
Aortic stenosis | Note presence and severity (see specific BSE guidance) [13] |