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 ...

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

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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 ...

These characteristics allow superior valve hemodynamics in the Mitroflow aortic valve, especially in those with a small aortic annulus (19 and 21 mm) 6; therefore, the Mitroflow aortic valve is ...

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 ...

While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated with aortic dilation and dissection, the risk of dissection in this population has recently been called into question. Michelena and ...