DAVID MONTGOMERY: Aortic stenosis is a tightening of one of the four major valves of the heart. The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to ...

the intensity of the S2 heart sound declines. Also, in patients with bicuspid aortic valves, an ejection click may be heard just before the murmur begins. The murmur of pulmonic stenosis is very ...

Surgery to replace an aortic valve is done for aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve regurgitation. During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve ...

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population. The condition ...

many individuals developed severe congestive heart failure from the aortic valve regurgitation. This resulted in physical examination findings described by multiple physicians, attempting to ...

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.