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 ...

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

According to the findings of a retrospective study, an antibiotic treatment duration of 2 weeks after surgery may be sufficient for valve culture-negative streptococcal endocarditis (155). Management ...

(Annals of Thoracic Surgery) In Japan, the incidence of infective endocarditis increased ... leaflet thrombosis after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. (Heart) For patients with coronary ...

Description Aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve, which separates the main pumping chamber of the heart from the circulation, becomes narrowed. This may reduce the flow of blood out of the ...

Adapted from Ross and Braunwald. 11 In the past few years, less invasive nonsurgical transcutaneous transfemoral (and to a lesser extent, transapical) techniques (such as transcatheter aortic valve ...