Prosthetic aortic valves are often required for patients with aortic stenosis. The optimal choice of valve in middle-aged patients is not clear and the available options all have drawbacks.

There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better ...

Aortic stenosis is a heart valve disease that some people don't realize they have. So what is it, how is it treated?

Patients received a new treatment for heart valve disease, which did not require riskier open-heart surgery or travel to London.Five people from Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Peterborough and ...

Aortic stenosis mainly affects people over age 75, but also can affect younger adults. Sometimes, children are born with this condition. Aortic stenosis is usually treated by replacing the valve with ...

For severe aortic stenosis, the treatment involves replacing the aortic valve. And so prompt treatment is very important. So if you develop chest pain, have shortness of breath or feel faint, you ...

Aortic regurgitation means one of your heart’s valves is leaky. Learn what can cause it, the symptoms, and how to treat it.

At 17, Bill D'Andrea of Plymouth Meeting had open heart surgery for the faulty aortic valve he was born with. Instead of replacing it, the surgeon repaired it.

The mean aortic-valve gradients, shown in Panel A, and the mean aortic-valve areas, shown in Panel B, were assessed by an echocardiography core laboratory. 𝙸 bars indicate standard deviations.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’ve had a leaky aortic valve for approximately six years. I recently had an echocardiogram using Doppler. The last test I received was three years ago, which came back with a ...

In that surgery, called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, cardiologists insert a replacement valve through a patient’s groin and thread it all the way to the heart.