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 ...

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: ...

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

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 ...

Yale operates first the BATMAN procedure in CT, a less invasive heart treatment offering faster recovery and new hope for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...