The symptoms of aortic stenosis can be like other health conditions. Make sure your child sees their healthcare provider for a diagnosis. Your child's healthcare provider may have heard a heart murmur ...
Aortic stenosis often goes undetected unless patients go for a routine health checkup with their general practitioner, which involves the doctor detecting heart murmurs through a stethoscope. This is ...
It appears that most patients with a so-called Graham-Steell murmur actually have mitral stenosis and an accompanying adynamic aortic insufficiency rather than an associated pulmonary regurgitation.
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is when one of the arteries in the lungs gets blocked by a blood clot. In most cases, the clot travels from the leg or another part of the body (called deep vein thrombosis) ...
Figure 1. The natural history of aortic stenosis, emphasizing a long presymptomatic period and the dismal outcome once symptoms begin. AV indicates average. Adapted from Ross and Braunwald. 11 In the ...