If you have aortic regurgitation, the flaps around your aortic valve — the valve that pumps blood to your heart — don’t close fully. This causes blood to leak back into your left heart chamber.

There was recent myocardial infarction and small calcium deposits along the aortic ring above the sinuses of Valsalva. Aside from thickening and opacity of one leaflet, the mitral valve was normal.

For young Indians grappling with aortic valve disease, the Ross procedure offers a lifeline—one that restores vitality ...

The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of the body. So the heart pumps blood through the aortic valve to all the cells in the body.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open-heart surgery. It is also called catheter-based or percutaneous (through the skin) aortic valve replacement. While ...

It shows that when adjusting for valve size, the amount of calcification required to trigger severe AS was more directly linked to the size of the aortic valve annulus (the fibrous ring supporting ...

Danny Dvir, MD (Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel), who nearly a decade ago raised the specter of early valve deterioration with some of the older-generation TAVI devices, agreed looking ...

The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...

AS is the narrowing of the aortic valve in the heart, and is one of the most common valve diseases in the UK, affecting one in eight over-75s 1. It is also one of the most serious. As the valve ...

Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with procedure-related stroke. Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices may reduce embolization to the cerebral circulation and hence ...