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Aortic root wedging extent associates with age, sex, and comorbidities; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
= 0.2544, P < 0.0001). In conclusion, ageing, male gender, obesity, background cardiac disease, aortic tilting and dilation, and lung volume are all correlated with the extent of wedging of the aortic root within the cardiac base.
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