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

BACKGROUND: Real-world low-risk transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) outcomes in the United States have not been assessed comprehensively versus pivotal trials, which is a key component of ...

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

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Aortic valve size is a critical factor in determining the degree of calcification in severe aortic stenosis (AS), independent of sex. Analysis of 601 patients ...

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China Background: Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is a common cardiovascular ...

Circumflex right aortic ... mitral valve, but confirmed the patient continued to do well clinically (20). To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature of a circumflex right ...

The expert authors, including eminent cardiologist Eugene Braunwald, MD, proposed that the aortic valve should be replaced ... if not most of whom may have bicuspid aortopathy — is a triumph ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and congenital aortic stenosis are two types ... The most common diagnostic test for BAV is an echocardiogram (echo). A heart echo is a type of ultrasound that uses sound ...