making the diagnosis of critical aortic stenosis more difficult. Due to coexisting morbidity in many elderly patients, there is often a reluctance to recommend aortic valve replacement despite the ...

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 ...

Blood enters the left ventricle through the mitral valve and leaves through the aortic valve. A stenotic valve is a valve opening that has gotten smaller and is partially obstructing blood flow. In ...

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

Aortic valve stenosis, or AVS, is a life-threatening ... This finding reinforces the idea that the microenvironment plays a critical role in how AVS unfolds. From there, the researchers turned ...

“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 ...

An educational tool for cardiologists uses virtual reality to raise awareness and explain a less-invasive procedure for treating aortic stenosis ... of the aortic valve in the heart, and is ...

The 8-year data may hold value for TAVI—the newest Sapien valve uses the same tissue—but many other variables differ.

Dapagliflozin reduced the risk of death or worsening heart failure in older patients with aortic stenosis who underwent transcatheter aortic-valve implantation.

addressing the critical needs of patients with structural heart disease. Without treatment, 1 in 10 patients experiencing symptoms of severe aortic stenosis (AS) may die within five weeks.

THE primary purpose of this report is to emphasize the relation of a high-pitched "squeaking" or "musical" systolic murmur to aortic stenosis and calcification of the aortic valve. This is not so ...

Thus, in selected elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis, surgical valve replacement appears to improve survival. Medical management of patients with critical aortic stenosis should be ...