Rheumatic valvular disease is responsible for aortic stenosis on occasion. In this setting, rheumatic mitral valve disease is almost always present. Some degree of aortic regurgitation generally ...

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 ...

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 ...

provides important new insights into how aortic valve size is associated with the degree of valve calcification in severe aortic stenosis (AS). Historically, the severity of AS has been assessed using ...

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 ...

The “passive” notification led to more patients with severe AS undergoing valve replacement, but more can be done still.

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had an overall mortality rate of just 8.1% at one year, well below the trial's ...

The signs of aortic stenosis on physical exam include a systolic murmur, usually loudest at the right upper sternal border, that peaks late and radiates to the right carotid artery. [10] The ...

More information: Roya Anahita Mousavi et al, Association of aortic valve size with the degree of aortic valve calcification in severe high-gradient aortic stenosis, European Heart Journal ...