Compared with usual care, a system of electronic provider notification more often enabled patients diagnosed with severe ...

some people are born with an aortic valve that cannot open fully. This is a type of congenital heart disease. Aortic stenosis can cause an extra, unusual sound in your heartbeat called a heart murmur.

A new method of alerting clinical care providers holds promise for increasing treatment and improving survival for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), a valvular heart condition that can be ...

In patients greater than age 65, more than 90% of aortic stenosis involves trileaflet valves which have developed heavy calcification. [5] In these instances the calcium deposits are thought to ...

Normal E/A ratio of about 1:2 in an elderly patient with aortic stenosis and left ventricular hypertrophy is indicative of pseudo-normalization (see Figure 7). PW=pulsed wave; MV DT=mitral valve ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the surgical risk and long term outcome of patients over 80 years old undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR). DESIGN Consecutive cases with respective case note audit and a ...

Pregnant rabbits were given high doses of vitamin D to determine whether the vitamin crossed the placenta and to explore the relationship between maternal hypervitaminosis D and congenital supravalvar ...