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 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 ...
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 ...