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 ...

An expert has issued a warning to people if they notice a specific sign when pressing down on the fingernails.

Pressing down on your fingernails could reveal a subtle yet serious indicator of heart trouble, according to a doctor.

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 ...

New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...

Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear ...

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

A.L. (M.G.H. 1283255), a 30-year-old Negro mother of 7, entered the Massachusetts General Hospital because of increasingly severe dyspnea ... There was free aortic regurgitation because of ...

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

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 ...

UVM Medical Center is the only Vermont hospital offering Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) This new heart ...

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 ...