Being older is a risk factor for aortic stenosis due to calcium buildup in the valve and scarring. This usually begins after a person is 60 years old, with symptoms appearing at 70–80 years old.

Aortic Stenosis is the most common valvular abnormality among adults, with more than 200,000 cases per year across the United States. The prevalence increases with age, and most often it occurs in ...

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Aortic stenosis is usually treated by replacing the valve with a prosthetic valve. This can be implanted surgically or, more commonly today, via a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) is a condition affecting the heart characterized by the narrowing of the aortic valve of the left ventricle. Typically, the heart’s aortic valve opens during each contraction.

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve that affects how blood flows through the heart and body. While not often linked to heart valve narrowing, high and irregular blood pressure can ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, is a minimally invasive heart procedure that replaces a thickened aortic valve that can't fully open (aortic stenosis). The procedure restores proper ...

Although an ejection click is common with a bicuspid aortic valve, it is rarely heard in senile aortic stenosis. The intensity of the second heart sound is often diminished due to the immobility ...

Using a Mendelian randomization design to assess the genetic and observational association between obesity and aortic valve stenosis, researchers found that patients with allele scores between 4 ...

An aortic stenosis murmur is an unusual sound the heart makes due to a narrowing of the aortic heart valve. The narrowed heart valve restricts blood flow from the heart, which can create a murmur.

In a new study published in JACC: Advances, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) successfully validated an artificial intelligence tool that detects severe aortic stenosis ...

Lipoprotein (a) was associated with prevalent and incident aortic valve calcification and calcium progression in participants without aortic stenosis, researchers reported.“Lp (a) may represent ...