The test uses sound waves to take pictures of your heart, which provides details of your aortic valve. The echo images show ...

This can be an important add-on to echocardiography in patients with a borderline need for intervention, researchers say.

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008;5(12):764-765. We believe that strategies to avoid or reduce the severity of PPM should be individualized and take into account multiple variables, such as ...

demand mismatch occurs ... Two-dimensional echocardiography can demonstrate a thickened aortic valve, reduced leaflet mobility and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy. The echocardiogram ...

In principle, the blood volume passing through a stenotic valve (aortic stenosis) is equal to the blood volume proximal to the stenosis or in the LVOT (Figure 4). The stroke volume is equal to ...

A trend toward higher mortality in women with PPM who received a self-expanding valves deserves more scrutiny, though.

University of East Anglia scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before.