As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

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 ...

A CT provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection ... While repairing your aorta, your surgeon will inspect your aortic valve to determine ...

The anatomic location where the murmur is best heard ... There are four main "listening posts" on the chest (see picture below). A = aortic valve post (right upper-sternal border or RUSB) P ...

In this condition, the mitral valve or Aortic valve which is located on left side of heart , does not close properly. This is why the heart might struggle and try to pump the blood harder ...

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

The anatomic location where the murmur is best heard ... The four main “listening posts” on the chest are described below. A = aortic valve post (right upper sternal border or RUSB) P ...

Finally the second heart sound may be reduced in intensity. There are three main forms of aortic valve disease: congenital abnormalities, such as a bicuspid valve that leads to premature ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease ...