If the heart valve leak is severe, it may impair the forward flow of blood. This can cause symptoms of congestive heart failure, which include: Many people with aortic regurgitation only require ...

The study found that early intervention led to an 80% reduction in heart failure hospitalisations one year after treatment.

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.

Once again, data are suggesting that operators should move cautiously in bicuspid anatomy and think about surgery first.

Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) today announced new economic and clinical evidence on severe aortic stenosis (AS).

The calcium buildup on the aortic valve is not connected to the amount of calcium you consume. Rather, the calcium is a ...

The aortic and mitral valves are the ones that surgeons most commonly replace. Most valve replacement surgeries are successful. Share on Pinterest ivan68/Getty Images Heart valves are flap-like ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’ve had a leaky aortic valve for approximately six years. I recently had an echocardiogram using Doppler. The last test I received was three years ago, which came back with a ...

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.

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 ...

The trial, whose results were published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine, could change the way doctors treat severe aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the valve that controls blood ...