This can be an important add-on to echocardiography in patients with a borderline need for intervention, researchers say.

making the diagnosis of critical aortic stenosis more difficult. Due to coexisting morbidity in many elderly patients, there is often a reluctance to recommend aortic valve replacement despite the ...

The size of the valve opening is critical to its function ... Up to a third of patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis suffer sudden cardiac death. Some patients with asymptomatic but fast ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve ...

Researchers have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal condition ...

University of East Anglia scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before.

Find out why staging TAVI and PCI lowers risk in complex heart cases - read the latest insights from the ASCoP registry.

“Aortic stenosis is a common yet dangerous heart condition." “It happens when the aortic valve, the main outflow valve of the heart, stiffens and narrows. This causes reduced blood flow from the heart ...