BACKGROUND: Aortic valve disease (AVD) is associated with high mortality and morbidity. To date, there is no pharmacological ...

COLLEGEVILLE, PA — Thubrikar Aortic Valve, Inc. has announced promising outcomes from recent procedures involving its Optimum ...

A new study published in the International Journal of Cardiology showed that regardless of sex, there are still prominent ...

Rome, June 9 - Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi is to get a new aortic valve after tests at Milan's San Raffaele Hospital found he was suffering from "severe aortic insufficiency" that had placed his ...

The procedure, known as transcatheter aortic valve implementation, was streamed to a training conference attended by more ...

The signs of aortic stenosis on physical exam include a systolic murmur, usually loudest at the right upper sternal border, that peaks late and radiates to the right carotid artery. [10] The ...

Dick Bianco and his team were working to replace the patientâÄôs aortic valve Wednesday, but they werenâÄôt doing it because of heart disease or a genetic condition. Bianco heads the University of ...

It was terrifying to face each day like that. Traditional surgery was ruled out because of my frailty, and I felt desperate ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

Pi-Cardia designed the Shortcut device to mitigate the risk of coronary artery obstruction by splitting aortic valve leaflets ...

Women and men experience similar rates of dangerous complications after a major heart surgery. So why are women dying at ...

Despite having no greater chance of developing problems after high risk cardiovascular surgery, women are more likely than ...