Percutaneous aortic valve replacement is becoming a reality and brings new hope for a number of patients who cannot currently be treated with traditional surgical techniques. Whereas surgical ...

Heart valves keep blood flowing in the right direction between the heart's four chambers. If a valve, such as the aortic or mitral valve, is diseased or faulty, it may require repair or, sometimes ...

"We routinely perform surgical valve replacement for diseased aortic valves, but many individuals are too high a risk for open-heart surgery due to age or other illness, said Dr. Michael Reardon ...

Aortic valve regurgitation happens when your aortic valve doesn’t fully close, causing some blood to remain in your left ventricle. It can cause symptoms like chest pain and fatigue, among ...

Aortic valve stenosis is a blockage in one of the valves that help control the flow of blood to and from your heart. This stenosis, or narrowing, of the valve can keep it from opening or closing ...

Heart valve disease is when one or more of your heart valves don't work the way they should. Your heart has four valves: pulmonary, tricuspid, aortic, and mitral.

The aortic valve determines how blood flows from your left ventricle to your aorta. There are two different types of aortic valve disease: aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation.

Should a faulty aortic valve be the problem, “if you don’t have it treated, there’s a 50% chance you won’t live half a year,” Grossi says. Valve problems are not limited to the elderly.

Discussion Surgical aortic valve replacement represents the gold standard of treatment in patients with aortic valve stenosis. Often, symptomatic patients have significant comorbidities. In such ...

In the series they describe, Webb et al attempted percutaneous aortic prosthetic valve implantation in 18 patients, all of whom were deemed too high risk for surgery.

(May 10, 2007—ORLANDO, FL) -- Catheter techniques are expanding into new territory, successfully aiding in the replacement of narrowed, calcified aortic valves in patients too sick to withstand ...

Dr. Cribier described the development and evolution of percutaneous aortic valve replacement at the 30th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions ...