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 ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Aortic stenosis (AS), a significant valvular heart condition, is marked by a narrowed aortic valve impeding blood flow from the heart into the aorta, ...

Myval THV matches SAPIEN and Evolut THVs in 30-day outcomes, supporting its role in severe aortic stenosis treatment.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is frequent in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS). Pressure overload leads to marked structural and ... Oral anticoagulant therapy is mandatory when AF complicates ...

We completely removed the normal mitral valve apparatus and attached the prosthesis using silk sutures ... Hufnagel developed such a device to palliate aortic regurgitation in the form of an ...

TR, tricuspid regurgitation; MR, mitral regurgitation; AR, aortic regurgitation; TV, tricuspid valve ... an inflow cannula with coronal angle >65–75° for HM2 and HVAD and <28° for HM3 is associated ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is the most commonly used scale for rapidly evaluating and quantifying stroke severity ... of metal or other prosthetic devices.

If you have heart valve replacement surgery, you will be prescribed a blood thinner (a.k.a. an anticoagulant) upon discharge from the hospital. Long-term blood thinner medication guidelines differ ...

What Is an Artificial Heart Valve Replacement? An artificial valve is also known as a mechanical heart valve or a prosthetic heart valve. It is a man-made valve and may be composed of plastic, metal, ...

Valve thrombosis can occur in mechanical prosthetic valves and is increasingly recognised in transcatheter and surgically implanted bioprosthetic valves. The risk of thrombosis of mechanical valves is ...