The majority of IE cases are presumably secondary to dental pathology, followed by otitis media or sinusitis • Mitral and aortic valves are most ... echocardiography (TEE) to confirm the ...

While he sits on the couch in the photo, he is looking to the side and smiling in a white tee paired ... disease. Aortic stenosis—the narrowing of the aortic heart valve leading to blood not ...

MRI showed embolic appearing small ischemic foci. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) showed vegetations on mitral and aortic valves. Blood culture showed Streptococcus mutans. This patient was ...

Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for ...

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 ...

At baseline, the mechanical valve group tended to be younger (55.7 vs 65.2) and had less aortic stenois (82.4% vs 89.5%), but ...

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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, ...

A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...