Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve opening, which restricts blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: My doctor heard a new heart murmur and suspected I have a narrowed valve due to aortic stenosis. I feel fine. Why did this ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve ...

Researchers have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal condition ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

the MITRIS RESILIA mitral surgical valve and the SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA transcatheter aortic heart valve. Edwards’ INSPIRIS RESILIA and SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA valves are supported by extensive ...

An innovative, minimally invasive procedure is reducing the risk faced by patients with heart valve disease and improving ...

which is currently being tested in clinical studies of patients with severely calcified and narrowed aortic heart valves. Last fall, at the TCT conference in Washington, D.C., a randomized study ...