D.A.M. Answer: The aortic valve, which separates the left ventricle from the aorta (the largest artery in the body), is supposed to have three leaflets. About 1 percent of people have only two ...

Pi-Cardia’s transcatheter ShortCut device is designed to snake into the heart’s preexisting aortic valve, grasp the defunct implant’s leaflets and quickly slice them in two, removing the ...

[11–14] Calcific aortic valve disease is characterized by progressive aortic valve leaflet thickening and calcification that results in a valve that does not fully open and thus partially ...

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

The intensity of the second heart sound is often diminished due to the immobility of the aortic valve leaflets. In aortic stenosis, the carotid impulse is classically "parvus and tardus" -- or ...

Aortic valve prolapse was defined as downward displacement of cuspal material below a line joining the points of attachment of the aortic valve leaflets. Twenty four cases of aortic valve prolapse ...

Fixable, not fatal Heart valve failure is a condition where the leaflets or flaps in the aortic valve in the heart thicken and narrow, typically due to calcium buildup, allowing less blood to pass ...

Each calcified lesion from the base to the tip of the aortic valve leaflets was carefully selected, excluding calcifications found in the coronary arteries, aortic root, and left ventricular outflow ...

Figure 4. Exposure of aortic valve with retraction sutures. The native valve and calcifications of the leaflets and annulus were resected under the observation of a 3D endoscope to ensure thorough ...

Background Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is often associated with a concomitant aortopathy. However, few studies have evaluated the effect of the aortic valve (AV) phenotype on the rate of dilation of ...

provided market clearance for ShortCut™ - the world's first dedicated leaflet modification device, enabling valve-in-valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedures in patients at ...