A “fit and healthy” woman, Marie Anne August, experienced a “ripping” and bubbling” feeling in her chest. The 45-year-old was ...

A decade after bringing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) to Alaska, doctors at Providence Alaska Medical Center ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis is in his fourth week recovering at a hospital in Rome from pneumonia in both his lungs. He ...

Lp(a) (lipoprotein(a)) is an independent risk factor for calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS). Whether patients with CAVS and high Lp(a) levels are at higher risk of valvular or cardiovascular events ...

Pope Francis' recovery from double pneumonia continued Wednesday as a chest X-ray confirmed improvement, two days after doctors declared he is no longer in imminent danger of death. The latest ...

What is aortic stenosis in children ... Your child may also have tests, such as: Chest X-ray. This gives an overall picture of your child's heart and lungs. Electrocardiogram (ECG). This test measures ...

There were no differences at 2 years between the groups for the individual endpoints of mortality, cardiovascular mortality, heart failure rehospitalization, or aortic valve reintervention. Rates of ...

but the impact of poor valve performance is magnified in patients with a small aortic annulus, who are at risk of receiving a valve that is not adequate for their cardiac requirements,” said Dr ...

The expert authors, including eminent cardiologist Eugene Braunwald, MD, proposed that the aortic valve should be replaced sooner rather than later in such patients. Their call to favor surgical ...

These characteristics allow superior valve hemodynamics in the Mitroflow aortic valve, especially in those with a small aortic annulus (19 and 21 mm) 6; therefore, the Mitroflow aortic valve is ...