If validated prospectively, the findings could be ‘transformative’ for patients with no current medical options.

[5] In these instances the calcium deposits are thought to alter the structure and motion of the valve leaflets and ... hemodynamic consequence to mild and moderate aortic stenosis, the patient ...

Al Cover is walking and exercising again the way he was a few years ago.“I'm back to where I was before, doing hills. And in ...

For the first time, researchers said SGLT2 inhibitors may have some disease-modifying potential for nonsevere aortic stenosis ...

A total of 123 self-expanding transcatheter aortic valves were collected through autopsy (n=89) or surgical explant (n=34) from 11 CoreValve/Evolut clinical trials. Histological findings in ...

Aortic valve leaflets were embedded in optimal cutting temperature ... Semiquantitative assessment of valve fibrosis (1: mild, 2: moderate, 3: severe) and calcification (Warren-Yong score—1: absent, 2 ...

Calcifications appearing grossly as a cloudy fluid surrounding the aortic valve leaflets are an uncommon finding. Normally, calcified aortic valves are characterised by large, nodular masses within ...

Methods In 149 patients (104 mild AS, 36 moderate AS and 9 severe AS ... AVC was defined as calcification within the valve leaflets including the aortic annulus and the aortic wall immediately ...

These risks, combined with advanced age, significant co-morbidities, and a severely calcified small aortic annulus ... was implanted in the supra-annular location of the leaflets. The valve was ...

This review focuses on the current role and future prospects of CT in the assessment of aortic and mitral valves for transcatheter interventions, prosthetic valve complications ... of mitral leaflet ...