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 ...

Sometimes, the aortic valve opening narrows – a serious condition called aortic stenosis . This narrowing obstructs blood flow from your heart into your aorta and out to the rest of your body.

The heart's chambers and valves all work together to keep blood flowing in one direction. The heart valve can calcify and cause narrowing of the valve which is called stenosis. Stenosis happens most ...

Just as with the soldiers, a small hole was cut in the side of a beating heart and a finger was inserted to find and very carefully widen the narrowed valve. Early results were disastrous ...

The Philippine Heart Center has reached a significant milestone by successfully performing six Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

a type of valvular disease in which the valve becomes narrowed, artificial valves designed for aortic stenosis do not work well for patients with aortic regurgitation. The Trilogy valve is the ...

While TAVR is now common in patients with aortic stenosis, a type of valvular disease in which the valve becomes narrowed, artificial valves designed for aortic stenosis do not work well for ...

Stenosis of the aortic or pulmonic valves will result in a systolic murmur, as blood is ejected through the narrowed orifice. Conversely, regurgitation of the same valves will result in a ...

Balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty treatment is a minimal invasive procedure used to open the narrowed pulmonary valves and improve blood flow. A thin tube (catheter) with a small-deflated balloon at ...

A decade after bringing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) to Alaska, doctors at Providence Alaska Medical Center ...