CABG plus surgical aortic valve replacement for treatment of coronary disease and aortic stenosis was associated with better 5-year outcomes vs. PCI plus transcatheter aortic valve replacement in ...

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S. researchers ...

A study reveals that middle-aged adults fare better with mechanical aortic valves compared to animal tissue-based valves. The research, presented at the Society for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting, ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.

However, a transesophageal echocardiogram demonstrated a rounded mobile echodensity measuring 0.48cm x 0.13cm attached to the commissure of left and right cusps on the aortic valve, consistent with a ...

Haemolysis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI ... All patients exhibited some PVL corresponding to the native valve commissure, especially at 2 and 10 o’clock, and two of them (33%) ...

What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...

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 ...

She was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis. This is a degenerative heart condition in which the valve between the heart and the main artery that carries blood to the rest of the body becomes ...