Doctors say up to one in 50 people are born with a bicuspid aortic valve which needs regular checks - but many are not diagnosed until middle age ...

Aortic valve disease is a condition that occurs when your aorta (the main artery of your body) and left ventricle (the lower left chamber of your heart) malfunction. The aortic valve determines how ...

A normal aortic valve (left) versus a defective aortic valve (right) and their different sound signals (purple). The sound data was used to generate graphs at the bottom corners, which differ greatly ...

Both Gary LeGros, 70, a Jeanerette city judge, and Paul Herman Toups, an 84-year-old retired small-business owner, underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, a minimally invasive ...

Beware! Having difficulty in breathing can be a warning sign of deadly heart valve disease. Read on to learn more about this ...

What is Bicuspid Aortic Valve? Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a very common congenital cardiac malformation. It afflicts about 1-2% of population with a predominance in males. The aorta is the main ...

The chance that patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) will receive aortic valve replacement (AVR) is worse than the flip of a coin, even a decade after the game-changing transcatheter option ...

Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a leading cause of aortic root dilatation (ARD) in people with hypertension and those genetically pre-disposed to ARD, that is, those with bicuspid aortic valve disease ...

Aortic stenosis hides behind the word “ageing.” An older adult slows down, feels tired, avoids stairs, and everyone assumes ...

Some degree of leaflet motion irregularity is “not uncommon” in patients receiving bioprosthetic aortic valves, according to paper published online October 5, 2015, ahead of print in the New England ...

kochi transcatheter aortic valve implantation tavi was performed on a 74yearold man in rajagiri hospital to help restore normal blood flow the hospital claimed that the procedure was performed for the ...