Kennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart ...

Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.

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

is anatomically characterized by mild to moderate calcification of a normal (trileaflet) aortic valve (AV), a bileaflet valve or other congenital AV anomaly, dilated aortic sinuses, rheumatic ...

DAVID MONTGOMERY: Aortic stenosis is a tightening of one of the four major valves of the heart. The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) occurs when the orifice of the aortic valve is significantly reduced due to the failure of the aortic valve leaflets to open fully during systole. This causes an effective ...

There are three main forms of aortic valve disease: congenital abnormalities, such as a bicuspid valve that leads to premature calcification; calcification of the normal trileaflet valve ...

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population. The condition ...

While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated with ... relative to the previously reported incidence of aortic dissection in normal subjects in Olmstead County, bicuspid AV had a ...