Introduction. Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular heart disease in the western world. As a predominantly degenerative process the disease prevalence increases with age, affecting 4% of ...

Objective To evaluate the changes in transvalvular gradients and the incidence of valve haemodynamic deterioration (VHD) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), according to use of ...

Cardiologists use echocardiography to diagnose a range of functional or structural abnormalities of the heart. Using more ...