Sara Adair knew she was at risk for a life-threatening aortic dissection after her father and sister experienced the same ...

Sex differences in the risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease have been ...

Roger Black has spoken about the heart surgery he underwent in January and the fear he felt before going under the knife ...

Left heart failure results in passive elevation ... from the Graham-Steele murmur of pulmonic insufficiency. If aortic root disease is the cause of the aortic regurgitation, the murmur will ...

The ascending aorta includes the aortic root and sinuses of Valsalva where the blood supply to your heart, via the coronary arteries, originates. The ascending aorta continues upward to form the ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

Recent research from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems) provides important new insights into how ...

Antegrade cannulae are designed to deliver cardioplegia solution to the heart via the coronary ostia in the normal direction of blood flow (antegrade perfusion). Medtronic offers both aortic root ...

Some patients may be prescribed heart medication, Takayama said, and patients can also receive a surgical treatment called aortic root replacement to prevent tears in the aorta. Almost all Loeys ...

dilation of the aortic root, or a severe increase in afterload. When the aortic leaflets are involved, there is frequently a destructive process occurring such as infective endocarditis or ...