Aortic regurgitation occurs when blood flows retrograde (backwards) across the aortic valve from the aorta into the left ventricle during diastole. This abnormal backflow of blood leads to patholo ...

Over a 70-year lifetime, your heart beats at least 2.5 billion times. THAT’S B for BILLION! How many times do you flex a hip or knee joint over that same amount of time? Not even close to that ...

At baseline, the mechanical valve group tended to be younger (55.7 vs 65.2) and had less aortic stenois (82.4% vs 89.5%), but more moderate and severe aortic regurgitation (39.0% vs 30.5%).

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 ...

When a healthy aortic valve (illustrated) is open it's about as big as a half ... video explains what it means and why it matters to your heart health. Valvular insufficiency or leakage happens more ...

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 ...

The following is a summary of "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Beyond Severe Aortic Stenosis: JACC State-of-the-Art ...

such as mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation and pulmonary pressure. Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS V.13.0 package for Windows XP. Data were expressed as mean (SD). Two-way ...

The mitral valve was approximately 0.5 square centimeter in diameter and calcified. The pulmonary artery was 2 1/2 times normal size. No aortic regurgitation was observed during the operation.