Moderate to severe aortic stenosis may affect the heart and blood vessels in these ways: Over time, the left ventricle becomes larger and can’t pump blood to the body very well. The aorta may also ...

In conclusion, the TCW trial provides crucial insights, highlighting the potential of TAVI combined with FFR-guided PCI as a transformative, less invasive treatment for patients with severe aortic ...

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova Medical School, 35128 Padova, Italy ...

In patients greater than age 65, more than 90% of aortic stenosis involves trileaflet valves which have developed heavy calcification. [5] In these instances the calcium deposits are thought to ...

It can identify a significantly elevated velocity in the proximal subclavian artery (i.e., >300 cm/s), as well as a change in its waveform from the normal triphasic appearance to a more biphasic ...

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Patients with an anomalous left coronary artery from the ... normal point proximal to the stenosis. A 5 mm hole was punched into the right coronary sinus, and the RCA was reimplanted in an end-to-side ...

Background: The current research aimed to demonstrate the independent association between preoperative severe asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) and severe multi-organ dysfunction ...

A small percentage of malfunctioning congenitally abnormal aortic valves are unicuspid or unicommissural,5 but as most reports do not distinguish this from bicuspid aortic valve the abbreviation ...