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 ...

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However, we present an atypical case of fat embolism associated with LVO, one week after surgical aortic valve replacement surgery ... orthopedic surgery, or mitral valve replacement, disseminate into ...

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

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. (B.E.-S., B.R ...

In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased mortality and morbidity and this is also the case in patients in whom AF persists postoperatively.

thickened aortic valve without a significant gradient, and a sessile heterogeneous image with areas of calcification adhered to the ventricular face of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve, ...