Aortic valve disease is a condition that occurs when your aorta (the main artery of your body) and left ventricle (the lower left chamber of your heart) malfunction. The aortic valve determines how ...

A normal aortic valve (left) versus a defective aortic valve (right) and their different sound signals (purple). The sound data was used to generate graphs at the bottom corners, which differ greatly ...

Aortic stenosis, a common yet often overlooked heart condition in seniors, can cause symptoms like breathlessness, dizziness, and fatigue that are frequently mistaken for normal ageing. Doctors warn ...

Aortic valve Stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve. Symptoms include angina, syncope, and the symptoms of heart failure. Aortic valve replacement is the only proven effective therapy ...

The chance that patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) will receive aortic valve replacement (AVR) is worse than the flip of a coin, even a decade after the game-changing transcatheter option ...

Patients who have undergone surgical replacement of the heart’s aortic valve have a shorter life expectancy than the normal population, the loss in life expectancy being particularly marked in the ...