"Young patients with bicuspid disease and marked asymmetry of their aortic root/annulus still may be better served by a surgical AVR over TAVR, and young patients in general need to have more ...

While visiting Utah, Christine Seppi experienced sudden, severe abdominal and back pain. A rare diagnosis—an abdominal aortic ...

Heart specialists in New York, US, have made a ground-breaking announcement after they saved three children using just one donor heart in a triple back-to-back surgery ...

What began over a decade ago as a casual conversation en route to a wedding along the Junction main road has since blossomed ...

After aortic root replacement, there was a significant decrease in left ... suggestive of atherosclerosis-like disease processes. Interestingly, peripheral vascular disease and a family history of ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) lead to 2 major alterations: (1) distorted stress sharing at the aortic root and (2) aortic valve (AV) closure secondary to increased transvalvular pressure.

Additionally, LV-aortic root angle and BST were measured in controls ... for evaluation of clinically suspected coronary artery disease in 2006. These subjects were <65 years of age, without a ...

The most common location of enlargement is the aortic root. How is Loeys-Dietz Syndrome different from Marfan Syndrome? In the past, many individuals with Loeys-Dietz syndrome were mistakenly ...

(A and B) Bioprosthetic aortic valves calcify along the cusp commissures mimicking the pattern found in native aortic valve disease. (C) Calcified leaflets ... (C) Bacterial spread into the aortic ...