Background: The incidence of conduction disease requiring permanent ... P = 0.012), and combined aortic and mitral valve surgery (OR = 11.5, P = 0.027). Aortic valve types did not predict complete ...

Rheumatic valvular disease is responsible for aortic stenosis on occasion. In this setting, rheumatic mitral valve disease is ... neck and carotid arteries (see image below).

The Gorlin equation is used to calculate mitral or aortic valve area during invasive hemodynamic assessment via cardiac catheterization. While initially developed to measure mitral valve area in ...