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 ...

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 ...

Protecting your heart starts with understanding how it works. Heart valve diseases are conditions that can disrupt the flow ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement or implantation (TAVR or TAVI) is a well-established treatment option for elderly patients with severe aortic ... for pure aortic regurgitation (AR ...

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

and had less aortic stenois (82.4% vs 89.5%), but more moderate and severe aortic regurgitation (39.0% vs 30.5%). The investigators applied statistical adjustments to create relatively balanced ...

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 ...

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.

ITANAGAR, 24 Feb: The Oniya Heart Foundation (OHF), which had provided free screening for congenital heart diseases to ...