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

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.

A 35-year-old man with a history of rheumatic heart disease was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital in February, 1961, for aortic valvuloplasty because of progressive cardiac decompensation.

It’s called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR. It’s a little like balloon valvuloplasty because it uses a catheter threaded into an artery to your heart.

Aortic Valvuloplasty under Direct Vision Authors: J. Gordon Scannell, M.D., Robert S. Shaw, M.D., John F. Burke, M.D., W. Gerald Austen, M.D., Alejandro H. Villegas, M.D., and Richard R. Kelley ...

Balloon valvuloplasty often results in symptomatic improvement; however, the postvalvuloplasty valve area is usually <1.0 cm 2, the major periprocedural complication rate is roughly 5%, and the 6 ...

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), a minimally invasive procedure to alleviate aortic valve stenosis, commonly employs rapid ventricular pacing (RVP) for balloon stabilization. However, the repeated ...

Valvuloplasty is the first-line treatment for a person with congenital aortic valve stenosis. Mitral valve stenosis: This restricts the flow of blood from the upper to lower chambers on the left ...

In more severe symptomatic cases of aortic stenosis, aortic valve replacement or other procedures like transcatheter aortic valve implantation and balloon valvuloplasty may be necessary.