Prosthetic aortic valves are often required for patients with aortic stenosis. The optimal choice of valve in middle-aged patients is not clear and the available options all have drawbacks.

Aortic stenosis is the most common cardiac-valve lesion in the United States. Two factors account for its common occurrence: approximately 1 to 2 percent of the population is born with a bicuspid ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) ... The physician then positions the prosthetic valve and expands it by inflating a balloon during rapid ventricular pacing, ...

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Aortic valve replacement is a surgery that removes and replaces the damaged aortic valve with a prosthetic valve. It is a major surgery. Not everyone is a good candidate for this surgery.

Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) is increasingly performed in patients with severe, symptomatic aortic-valve stenosis. In younger patients at low surgical risk, both TAVI and ...

Aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve (the main outflow valve of the heart to the body) narrows. Over time, the valve passageways become stiff, reducing the pliability of the valve.

Aortic stenosis is a nasty disease. The main valve regulating blood flow out of the heart gets stiff, leathery and constricted. Within two years of the first symptoms, half the people with the ...

TAVR has taken on a stronger position relative to surgical aortic valve replacement in a focused update to the valvular heart disease guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American ...

TAVI. TAVI, or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, is a procedure used to treat aortic stenosis, which occurs when the aortic valve narrows and blood cannot flow normally.

Doctors at Apollo Speciality Hospitals here have recently performed Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive aortic valve replacement procedure, on a 77-year-old man ...