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.
Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark (N.S.B.M., J.S.D., M.A., A.H., R.C.-S., J.E.M., K.A.Ø., M.-A.C.). Research center, Institut ...
What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...
THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...
This time, doctors performed thorough scans, and transferred her to the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS). She was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis. This is a degenerative heart condition in ...
Description Aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve, which separates the main pumping chamber of the heart from the circulation, becomes narrowed. This may reduce the flow of blood out of the ...
11 In the past few years, less invasive nonsurgical transcutaneous transfemoral (and to a lesser extent, transapical) techniques (such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation) for implanting a new ...
While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated with aortic dilation and dissection, the risk of dissection in this population has recently been called into question. Michelena and ...