There is a common birth defect where babies are born with what is known as a bicuspid aortic valve. Usually, the aortic valve has three leaflets or "cups" through which blood passes into the aorta.

Turner's syndrome may cause coarctation of the aorta or malformation of the aortic valve. Marfan syndrome can cause aortic aneurysm due to the weakening of connective tissues, including those that ...

The aortic valve, which funnels blood from the heart to the aorta, normally has three leaflets. Kennedy’s aortic valve only has two. Some diagnosed with BAV have minimal impacts, while others ...

Valve operates as a slightly closed shop, rarely granting staff interviews and keeping community engagement to a minimum. The studio's latest game, Deadlock, was even released semi-covertly with ...

Michael Hughes, from Carrickfergus, had never heard about abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) until he got a letter about screening. One in 80 men screened in Northern Ireland has an AAA, but it ...

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

Sometimes, a person may have an abnormally thickened or fused valve. The valve might have an abnormal number of small parts, called leaflets. As a result, the valve can’t open as fully as it normally ...

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 ...

If TV leaflets are fused, transcatheter balloon valvotomy can even be considered ... The left ventricle (LV)? The mitral valve? The pulmonic or aortic valve? Making that judgment is a good first step ...

It would be reasonable to assume that a healthy tricuspid valve has three leaflets, but that would be true only about half the time ... "We're aggressively trying to emphasize that the quantification ...

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 risk ...

All compounds are either investigational or being studied for (a) new use(s). Efficacy and safety have not been established. There is no guarantee that they will become commercially available for the ...