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 ...

A new method of alerting clinical care providers holds promise for increasing treatment and improving survival for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), a valvular heart condition that can be ...

Some degree of aortic regurgitation generally accompanies ... The echocardiogram can also quantify aortic stenosis severity. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) can assess the size of the left ...

The findings revealed echo alerts increased aortic valve replacement (AVR) treatment rates by 11 percent for all patients with severe AS, and 14 percent for symptomatic severe AS patients.

All patients had moderate to severe symptomatic aortic regurgitation and underwent TAVR with the Trilogy valve. To date, about 360 patients have at least one year of follow-up after their ...

device developed specifically for the treatment for aortic regurgitation has met all the prespecified safety and efficacy goals, so far, in an expansion cohort of the ALIGN-AR trial, paving the ...

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 ...

Doctors may treat mild aortic valve regurgitation with medications and by closely tracking how you’re doing. They use a grading system, ranging from mild to severe, to find out how serious your ...