Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

Caranx Medical has submitted TAVIPILOT Soft, an AI-based guide software for use during Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI ... which shows the anatomy indirectly (requiring contrast ...

All compounds are either investigational or being studied for (a) new use(s). Efficacy and safety have not been established. There is no guarantee that they will become commercially available for the ...

Professor Avi Shilon looks at one of the leaflets the anti-Israel protesters handed out as he confronts them about why they chose to interrupt his class. He offered to talk with them outside the ...

Calcific aortic valve disease is the pathological remodeling of valve leaflets. The initial steps in valve leaflet osteogenic reprogramming are not fully understood. As TERT (telomerase reverse ...

The left heart pump consists of the left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, and aorta ... Proper treatment requires making this distinction. Read about the anatomy of the normal ...

A double inversion recovery fast spin-echo sequence was used to acquire short-axis images of the aortic valve in a breath-hold (15 +/- 3 seconds). All three leaflets of the aortic valve were seen ...

Significant tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The development of transcatheter valve repair therapies has opened a wide range of opportunities for ...

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population. The condition ...

1 Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China 2 Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China ...