The aortic valve parts that look like flaps are called "cusps." The cusps are thin sheets of connective tissue made of collagen, a strong protein. Most of the time, there are three cusps in the ...

A person’s aortic valve normally has three parts, or cusps. A bicuspid aortic valve has two parts. About 1 in 100 people are born with a bicuspid aortic valve. When not treated, severe aortic ...

The FET procedure involves placing a hybrid graft, a combination of a surgical graft and a stent graft, resembling an ...

The development of aortic valve sclerosis may signal disease progression in patients with chronic heart failure.

As mentioned previously, medically managed treatment of severe aortic stenosis has a dismal prognosis, with an overall mean survival of 3 years from the onset of symptoms. [11,12] Surgical valve ...

Learn about the ACURATE Prime Aortic Valve System, a new TAVR device designed to improve treatment for severe aortic stenosis. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), also known as TAVR or ...

You might need this operation if you have a problem with your heart’s aortic valve. If certain things go wrong with that valve, your doctor may recommend that you have surgery to replace it.

transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement did not improve outcomes compared with guideline-directed conservative management. Patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and ...

Data from randomized trials examining whether early intervention with transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) will improve outcomes in these patients are lacking. At 75 centers in the United ...

LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve may start to have an advantage ...

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 ...