Aortic stenosis is a condition where the aortic valve narrows, obstructing blood flow from the heart to the aorta. As a ...

A Hoosier’s sudden aortic dissection led to a life-saving discovery: his sister was at risk, too. What seemed like a normal ...

For people born with a bicuspid aortic valve, your heart valve has two flaps ... a specific heart imaging test known as a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). A TTE is a non-invasive diagnostic ...

12 The echocardiography examination also included evaluation ... it may be necessary for them to interrupt competitive sport. Athletes with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) were clinically asymptomatic and ...

Using echocardiography ... Patients with bicuspid aortic valves — who often develop valve calcification and stenosis earlier in life — would receive great benefit from earlier intervention ...

Although an ejection click is common with a bicuspid aortic valve, it is rarely heard in ... American Heart Association Parasternal long-axis echocardiogram of a patient with critical aortic ...

Greg flagged what his dental notes already said - that in 2014 he’d undergone open-heart surgery to replace a damaged aortic valve caused by a bicuspid ... consultant still echo in his head.

Transthoracic echocardiogram showed abnormally thickened, bicuspid aortic valve with suspicion of paravalvular aortic root abscess. Transoesophageal echocardiogram identified large vegetation on ...