RATES of permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) exceed 20% in patients with aortic regurgitation (AR). A new retrospective ...

Fred Hoiberg was in the best shape of his life. No symptoms. But a silent aneurysm was ready to kill him. What happened next changed everything.

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Bicuspid aortic valve disease occurs when individuals are born with a deformed valve, which, unlike the normal heart valve, starts to calcify at an unusually early age.

Aortic stenosis, affecting nine million people globally, is often unnoticed as symptoms are mistaken for aging. This heart condition, common in elderly, restricts blood flow due to valve narrowing, ...

The normal aortic valve area when open is between 3 cm 2 and 4 cm 2. There is no significant obstruction to flow until the valve area has decreased by 50%.

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WASHINGTON — Among patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and myocardial fibrosis, transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement did not improve outcomes compared with ...

Possible causes include anxiety, fever, exercise, and an overactive thyroid gland. Though most causes of a bounding pulse are ...

If your doctor says you need surgery to replace your heart’s aortic valve, this is why you need it and what you can expect from the procedure and recovery.

Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the major heart valve disease that afflicts nearly 10 million patients globally with an annual mortality exceeding 100,000, and the numbers continue to rise.

In a first-in-human study, a new class of transcatheter heart valve demonstrated good safety and restored aortic blood flow to levels similar to a healthy aortic valve at 1 year, a speaker ...