An intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) is a type of mechanical device used to assist blood flow. It's implanted into the body's ...

Abnormal blood flow in the aorta is linked to inflammation and breakdown of the vessel wall in conditions where the aorta is dilated. This is shown in a study led by researchers at Linköping ...

The diagnosis of aortic stenosis is made mostly on physical examination and by echocardiography. The ECG in patients with aortic stenosis frequently shows left ventricular hypertrophy with strain ...

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis.

Doppler interrogation is useful to determine flow characteristics across a PDA, ASD and VSD; Echocardiography is generally the first test in the initial evaluation of coarctation of the aorta.

OBJECTIVES: Nuclear magnetic resonance (MRI) velocity mapping was used to characterize flow waveforms and to measure volume flow in the ascending and descending thoracic aorta in patients with ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) risk grows over time for patients with narrowing of the aorta, the body's biggest blood vessel, ...

The weakened sections of the aortic wall may become unable to support the force of blood flow. Such an aneurysm could burst, causing serious internal bleeding or even send blood clots down the legs to ...

resulting in greater flow across the pulmonic valve. Compared with the murmur of aortic stenosis that extends up to the A2 heart sound, the murmur of pulmonic stenosis extends through the A2 sound ...

A beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is a surgical procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection in the ascending aorta and arch of the aorta. This procedure involves removing the ...

and it’s a narrowing of the aortic valve. As you can imagine, as the valve narrows, it restricts blood flow, which makes the heart work harder than it normally would to pump blood. When our ...

DAVID MONTGOMERY: Aortic stenosis is a tightening of one of the four major valves of the heart. The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of ...