As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

DAVID MONTGOMERY: Aortic stenosis is a tightening of one of the four major valves of the heart. The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of ...

Surgery to replace an aortic valve is done for aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve regurgitation. During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve ...

A systolic ejection click frequently indicates a bicuspid aortic valve. This sound is heard just after the 1st heart sound (S1). Usually, the opening of the aortic valve is not audible ...

The symptoms of aortic valve regurgitation are those predominately of congestive heart failure. As chronic aortic regurgitation develops slowly over time, the left ventricle can easily compensate ...

The vessels that feed the heart are called coronary arteries (shown in the diagram right) and they branch off from ... such as repairing or replacing a heart valve, aortic aneurysm repair, or a ...

Researchers have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal condition ...

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 ...