Aortic stenosis is a heart valve disease that some people don't realize they have. So what is it, how is it treated? Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns has the answers.

Measuring the Gradient In almost all patients with aortic stenosis two gradients combine to form the total pressure overload on the left ventricle. [13, 14] One pressure drop occurs at the valve ...

Aortic stenosis happens when your aortic valve does not open all the way causing pressure to build in the left ventricle. This pressure blocks blood flow as it leaves the heart. In other words, the ...

CHICAGO — Compared with usual care, a system of electronic provider notification more often enabled patients diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis to have aortic valve replacement within 1 ...

A novel therapeutic showed significant promise in slowing aortic valve calcification, potentially extending time until or eliminating need for transcatheter or surgical intervention for stenosis ...

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis. In addition, congenital heart defects, rheumatic fever, bacterial infections of the ...

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis. In addition, congenital heart defects, rheumatic fever, bacterial infections ...

Patients with low-gradient aortic stenosis and reduced LVEF, compared with patients with high-gradient aortic stenosis, have worse clinical outcomes.

An aortic stenosis murmur is a sound the heart makes due to a narrowing of the aortic heart valve. Learn more about aortic stenosis murmur here.

The accurate assessment of aortic valve area in patients with a reduced stroke volume is difficult because the calculated valve area is proportional to stroke volume and the constant of the Gorlin ...

Quick Takes Current guidelines suggest that a high aortic valve calcification (AVC) score on CT in patients with suspected low-flow low-gradient severe aortic stenosis (AS) may be appropriate to ...

Aortic valve replacement (AVR) relieves symptoms and improves survival in patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). 1 However, a subset of patients with AS have a low transvalvular pressure ...