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

THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...

An innovative heart procedure is changing the lives of patients with aortic valve disease. It's called transcatheter aortic ...

who was diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve and an aortic aneurysm (a less efficient heart valve with two flaps and a swelling in the main blood vessel coming from the heart). Despite our ...

Philippe Pibarot, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Canada Research Chair in Valvular Heart Diseases at Laval University Jean G. Dumesnil, Professor of Medicine and a Cardiologist at Laval ...

Kozlowski, then known as Mary Ann George, had her aortic and mitral valves replaced Dec. 3, 1974 at then-Hamot Medical Center by groundbreaking Erie heart surgeon Dr. George D'Angelo. Childhood ...

Worried, she convinced him to check with a cardiologist, who proffered bad news: Howard had a failing aortic valve in his heart that could kill him in a year or less. He needed a replacement.

The most promising innovation in heart valve disease treatment is 'Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation ... procedure and predictive analytics in real-time during monitoring.