A normal aortic valve is made up of three sections, called leaflets. But sometimes people are born with a valve that has only ...

Blood enters the left ventricle through the mitral valve and leaves through the aortic valve. A stenotic valve is a valve opening that has gotten smaller and is partially obstructing blood flow. In ...

If you have aortic regurgitation, the flaps around your aortic valve — the valve that pumps blood to your heart — don’t close fully. This causes blood to leak back into your left heart chamber.

The most common cause of aortic stenosis in a person over age 70 years is calcification of a normal trileaflet ... across the aortic valve, and the aortic valve area (AVA). (Otto CM, et al.

While the average decrease in valve area in elderly ... patients with aortic stenosis develop atrial fibrillation, only a minority can be successfully cardioverted to normal sinus rhythm.

There are three main forms of aortic valve disease: congenital abnormalities, such as a bicuspid valve that leads to premature calcification; calcification of the normal trileaflet valve ...

The mitral valve was normal. Comment. The squeaking quality ... with similar findings in the aortic area. The blood pressure was 190/70. X-ray examination revealed marked cardiac enlargement.

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three ... to show that with more ...

A beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is typically recommended for patients who have an aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection that involves the ascending aorta and arch. This procedure may also be ...

They were compared with a group of 56 athletes with a normal tricuspid valve (TAV). Results BAV athletes showed significant progressive increase in left ventricular dimensions and aortic diameters at ...

Effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA) is considered a fundamental ... by mild to moderate calcification of a normal (trileaflet) aortic valve (AV), a bileaflet valve or other congenital ...