Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is very useful for the diagnosis and follow-up of aortic root aneurysms, which is important for patients with annuloaortic ectasia or Marfan syndrome. Since the ...

The increase in use of SU-AVR has been mostly driven by minimally invasive surgery. Other indications include patients with a small and/or calcified aortic root, as well as patients requiring AVR and ...

Median age at AVR was 7.22 years (0.02–17.27). The first replacement was Ross (n=10), biological prosthesis (n=3), mechanical prosthesis (n=5) or homograft in the aortic root position (n=5). In the ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008;5(12):764-765. We believe that strategies to avoid or reduce the severity of PPM should be individualized and take into account multiple variables, such as ...

Aortic stenosis is a condition where the aortic valve in the heart becomes too narrow, resulting in its functional impairment. Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs and flows into the left ...

She was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis. This is a degenerative heart condition in which the valve between the heart and the main artery that carries blood to the rest of the body becomes ...

Recent studies, both in vitro and in vivo, have implied relevance of lineage-specific SMC functions in the pathophysiology of thoracic aortic diseases; however, whether 2 lineage-derived SMCs have any ...

7 Their cardinal findings are as follows: (1) The first limb of their article leverages the Framingham Study, which includes routine assessment of aortic size by echocardiography and computerized ...

What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...