Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S. researchers ...
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health have developed an innovative tool that simulates blood flow in the aorta ... will flow after a valve replacement, guiding clinicians ...
Surgery to replace an aortic valve is done for aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve regurgitation. During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve ...
Objective To assess the diagnostic accuracy, reliability and clinical impact of artificial intelligence (AI) derived thoracic aorta analysis (AI-Rad Companion, Siemens) on routine clinical gated and ...
These two conditions can be treated surgically if necessary, either with open or minimally invasive techniques such as transcatheter repair. Valve implantation, where the aortic valve is replaced with ...
Dr. Shetty's team followed 252 patients who underwent the Ross procedure, a heart valve replacement operation commonly used to treat younger patients with severe aortic valve disease. During the ...
A procedure to repair or to replace the defective valve with an artificial valve may be necessary. There are currently two procedures that replace defective aortic valves: surgical aortic valve ...
The incidence of postoperative complete heart block in a series of 124 cases of replacement of the aortic valve by a ball valve prosthesis was 12.9% (16 of 124). In all but one case, complete heart ...