In an era of rapidly expanding use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), the management of patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease is far less well established than in those ...

Electrocardiogram (ECG). This test measures the electrical activity of the heart. Echocardiogram (Echo). This test uses sound waves to give a moving picture of the heart and valves. This is one of the ...

Aortic regurgitation occurs when blood leaks back into the left ventricle due to a leaky aortic valve. This is a type of valve disease in the heart. Aortic regurgitation can lead to some heart ...

Although an ejection click is common with a bicuspid aortic valve, it is rarely heard in senile aortic stenosis. The intensity of the second heart sound is often diminished due to the immobility ...

Currently, there is a lack of evidence for the long‐term bioprosthetic valve durability of patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Introduction: Following trans-catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), patients may develop aortic valve leaflet thrombosis ... Acoustic analysis is a non-invasive reproducible method, which ...

dhm.mhn.de Objective: It is presumed that patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) influences morbidity and mortality after aortic valve replacement (AVR). The aim of our study was to determine the impact of ...

Findings from the TAVR UNLOAD study found limited benefits of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the treatment of heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF ...

More information: Philippe Généreux et al, Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis, New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2405880 ...

The aorta is widest at the point where it connects to the heart's left ventricle through the aortic valve; then, it gets progressively narrower as it descends into the abdomen. The aorta is divided ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A randomized trial of patients with a narrowing of their heart’s aortic valve, but who had not yet begun to show the symptoms of cardiovascular disease, demonstrated that ...

The trial, whose results were published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine, could change the way doctors treat severe aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the valve that controls blood ...