The SMART trial raised questions about balloon-expandable valves in small aortic annuli; these new data offer some answers.

“In pure AR patients, there is no aortic annulus or leaflet calcification for stable anchoring of a transcatheter heart valve,” explains Yingqiang Guo, a professor of cardiac surgery and vice ...

The mitral annulus and its anterior leaflet were ... the ventricle and communicate with its cavity just below the aortic or mitral valve. The aneurysmal cavities typically extend in a circular ...

Rather than the new valve expanding in the aortic annulus, this porcine pericardial valve clips to aortic leaflets, which minimizes stress on cardiac and aortic structures and preserves the ...

Normal E/A ratio of about 1:2 in an elderly patient with aortic ... DT=mitral valve deceleration time Tissue-Doppler recording of the same patient (Figure 6) recording the mitral annular movement ...

TCT 615: Restenosis, Procedural Success and Long-Term Outcomes After Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Commissurotomy in Rheumatic Mitral Disease: Large Single Center Experience Receive the the latest news, ...