Aortic regurgitation occurs when blood flows retrograde (backwards) across the aortic valve from the aorta into the left ventricle during diastole. This abnormal backflow of blood leads to patholo ...

FSU pitcher Jacob Marlowe, a Barron Collier High School grad, played his first baseball game after two open heart surgeries.

The Doppler pattern was of aortic regurgitation (1+/2+), without any increase in degree at colour-scale evaluation after 5 years. No significant enlargement of aortic dimensions was present (AOan: ...

Background: There are insufficient data regarding how to deal with moderate aortic valve (AV) dysfunction during rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery. In this study, the clinical outcomes of patients ...

The following is a summary of "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Beyond Severe Aortic Stenosis: JACC State-of-the-Art ...

More recently, however, several workers have questioned the frequency of this murmur, 3–5 pointing out that aortic rather than pulmonary insufficiency is usually found when a diastolic murmur at ...

Over a 70-year lifetime, your heart beats at least 2.5 billion times. THAT’S B for BILLION! How many times do you flex a hip or knee joint over that same amount of time? Not even close to that ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (also known as TAVR or TAVI ... The MitraClip is a tiny device (about the size of a dime) that treats mitral regurgitation. The MitraClip pinches your mitral ...

The ECG in patients with aortic regurgitation is non-specific and may show LVH and left atrial enlargement. In acute aortic regurgitation, sinus tachycardia due to the increased sympathetic ...