Aortic stenosis, affecting nine million people globally, is often unnoticed as symptoms are mistaken for aging. This heart ...

Aortic stenosis is a condition that occurs when the opening of the aortic valve becomes narrowed. The aortic valve is a heart ...

Patients with low-gradient aortic stenosis and reduced LVEF, compared with patients with high-gradient aortic stenosis, have worse clinical outcomes.

Aortic stenosis occurs when the orifice of the aortic ... be determined using echocardiography is the dimensionless index (DI). This unitless measure is the ratio of left ventricular outflow ...

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 ...

Compared with AS alone, coexisting ATTR-CA was associated with an increased risk of mortality (HR 1.3, 95% CI 1.1-1.4) in a ...

GlobalData analysts anticipate FDA approval for the JenaValve Trilogy TAVR device designed to treat aortic regurgitation (AR) ...

SGMC Health recently achieved the successful completion of its first transcarotid access Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

The only effective treatment for aortic stenosis is removal of the mechanical obstruction. To this end, only aortic valve replacement (AVR) has been shown to achieve this while reducing mortality.

In asymptomatic patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, the survival is similar to age-matched controls. [1,16] The mainstay of medical treatment for these patients is simply appropriate ...