People with aortic stenosis can have chest tightness and shortness of breath -- or no symptoms at all. WebMD explains the different ways this type of valve disease can affect your heart.

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For severe aortic stenosis, the treatment involves replacing the aortic valve. And so prompt treatment is very important. So if you develop chest pain, have shortness of breath or feel faint, you ...

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium – an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart – his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder ...

An aneurysm refers to ballooning out of the aorta which causes aortic wall weakening. The aorta may continue to further expand (dilate) or remain unchanged, but close surveillance is necessary. As the ...

"Though aortic aneurysms do not directly cause death, complications arising from an aneurysm — such as dissection or rupture — cause approximately 15,000 deaths annually" in the U.S., says the ...

Aortic aneurysms were the cause of 9,923 deaths in 2018, according to the CDC. That year, about 58 percent of deaths due to aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection were among men.

We compared transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), using a self-expanding transcatheter aortic-valve bioprosthesis, with surgical aortic-valve replacement in patients with severe aortic ste ...

The US Food and Drug Administration warned that the benefits of fluoroquinolone antibiotics do not outweigh the risks – which include aortic aneurysm – for certain patients. These drugs are ...

We report a case of atherosclerosis in the aortic valve of a seven-year-old boy with familial hypercholesterolemia. This boy, born on August 7, 1949, had familial hypercholesterolemia type IIb and ...

Women with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis had better outcomes at 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a balloon-expandable valve compared with women who underwent surgery ...

The Baylor College of Medicine Aortic Surgery Fellowship (TMB #580-48-04-14) program is a one-year non-ACGME accredited program, approved by the Texas Medical Board. The program may be extended to a ...