Echocardiography is crucial to the identification of aortic regurgitation, determining the etiology, and estimating the severity. Echocardiography is almost 100% sensitive and specific for the ...

The authors studied 57 consecutive patients (age, 77 years; 52% male) with moderate to severe aortic stenosis ... Patients with atrial fibrillation, aortic insufficiency, mitral stenosis, and ...

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had an overall mortality rate of just 8.1% at one year, well below the trial's ...

Potential harms include the need for conversion to an open procedure, perioperative death, MI, stroke, bleeding, valve embolization, aortic regurgitation, heart block that requires a permanent ...

This condition can affect any of the four heart valves with either valvular stenosis (narrowing) or valvular regurgitation ... to its severity and any symptoms. The aortic valve sits between ...

Almost 100% sensitive and specific for the detection of aortic regurgitation, TTE is also crucial in determining etiology and estimating severity. Color flow Doppler echo permits direct ...