Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from ...

The main harm comes from false-positive ultrasounds, which often must be confirmed by an angiogram. About 1% of people get a stroke during an angiogram, which is more than the expected benefit of ...

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 ...

In asymptomatic patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, the survival is similar to age-matched controls. [1,16] The mainstay of medical treatment for these patients is simply appropriate ...

A first-of-its-kind therapy successfully slowed plaque progression in patients with aortic stenosis. Ataciguat may reduce the need for surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Auscultation of the heart in patients with aortic stenosis can be very helpful in both the diagnosis and determining the severity of disease. The typical murmur of aortic stenosis is a high ...

BACKGROUND: Real-world low-risk transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) outcomes in the United States have not been assessed comprehensively versus pivotal trials, which is a key component of ...

In principle, the blood volume passing through a stenotic valve (aortic stenosis) is equal to the blood volume proximal to the stenosis or in the LVOT (Figure 4). The stroke volume is equal to ...

(Circulation) The extent of myocardial fibrosis in aortic stenosis appeared to be a significant ... (Heart) Compared with men, women with abdominal aortic aneurysm were typically diagnosed almost ...

Researchers found that at five years, patients with severe aortic stenosis who were treated with either TAVR or surgery had comparable rates of all-cause mortality or disabling stroke.