In fact, patients with severe chronic aortic regurgitation may have the largest left ventricular end-diastolic volumes produced by any cardiac disease state, without significant elevation of left ...

Background: There are insufficient data regarding how to deal with moderate aortic valve (AV) dysfunction during rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery. In this study, the clinical outcomes of patients ...

That means the patient won't necessarily feel it in and of itself. When a patient develops severe aortic stenosis, this is most often when they develop symptoms. The first one is chest discomfort.

Potential harms include the need for conversion to an open procedure, perioperative death, MI, stroke, bleeding, valve embolization, aortic regurgitation, heart block that requires a permanent ...

However, symptoms often do not become noticeable until the condition is severe. Symptoms include ... for mitral regurgitation and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for aortic stenosis.

If validated prospectively, the findings could be ‘transformative’ for patients with no current medical options.

Varanasi: A team of skilled doctors at the Cardiology department at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu ...

Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

In patients with mild aortic regurgitation, this fall in pressure is gradual. In the setting of severe aortic regurgitation, a rapid drop in pressure gradient occurs. A pressure half-time of > 500 ...