An 80-year-old man has undergone a groundbreaking cardiac procedure at the Cardiocenter in Santiago de Cuba, marking an ...

Aortic Stenosis in the Older Population Robert L Shapiro; Alan Zajarias; Michael W Rich Disclosures Aging Health. 2013;9 (6):567-578. Conclusion & Future Perspective As the population ages and the ...

This is true regardless of age, sex, preoperative status, concomitant mitral insufficiency or minor degrees of aortic valve disease. A beneficial effect of younger age (below 40 years at surgery) or ...

A Mansfield 20 mm x 5.5 cm balloon was inflated twice and the post-valvuloplasty gradient was 31 mm Hg and the aortic valve area was 0.82 cm2.

Median follow-up at 77.0 months (72.6–81.5) showed no significant difference in all-cause mortality (33.2% vs 40.4%, P=0.586) or late aortic valve (AV)–related events, including myocardial infarction, ...

Aortyx announced today that it brought in $16 million (€13.8 million) to support its bioresorbable aortic patch technology. The company expects the funding to help bring the patch to first-in ...

Objective We retrospectively analysed outcome data from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) study to assess the incidence and potential risk factors of sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...

Valvular aortic stenosis is typically due to degenerative calcification, postinflammatory fibrocalcific disease (i.e., rheumatic heart disease), or a congenitally bicuspid valve. Calcification is ...

With targeted treatment using both medical therapy for transthyretin-associated cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) and valve replacement for aortic stenosis (AS), patients with the dual pathology can fare ...

Women are less likely than men to receive treatment for aortic stenosis, a new study supported by the British Heart Foundation reveals. The research showed that after a diagnosis of aortic stenosis, ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) is a progressive disease characterized by important interindividual variability in the rate of disease progression. The pathophysiology of AS progression is complex and involves ...