People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

The replacement system is launching into markets already served by repair devices, namely Edwards’ Pascal and Abbott’s ...

The mitral valve was normal. Comment. The squeaking quality in a predominantly apical murmur led to a diagnosis of aortic stenosis in addition to coronary and hypertensive heart disease.

“Aortic valve stenosis” is an often-overlooked condition and a growing health concern in ageing societies such as Thailand. With an increasing elderly population and a rise in age-related ...

Data shows, versus surgery, the Evolut™ transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR ... to surgery for patients with severe aortic stenosis, regardless of their surgical risk," said Michael ...

Carvedilol, because of its pharmacological action, is expected to reduce the pressure gradient associated with DLVOTO ... in a representative case of systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve ...

The aortic valve is a door ... problem where the pressure gradient between the heart and aorta increases above a mean of 40 mm Hg, which is called severe aortic stenosis. However, due to various ...

Its total funding is more than $200 million. Cardiac Dimensions is targeting a condition called mitral valve regurgitation, which involves the leakage of blood through the heart’s mitral valve ...

HealthDay News — In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls ...

Severe mitral regurgitation (MR ... echo database identified 1189 patients with adjudicated severe aortic stenosis (aortic valve area ≤1.0 cm 2), low transaortic gradients (mean gradient <40 mm Hg), ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females. A study led by bioengineers at the University of ...