Prosthetic heart valve (PHV) dysfunction is a rare, but potentially life-threatening, complication. In clinical practice, PHV dysfunction poses a diagnostic dilemma. Echocardiography and fluoroscopy ...
Echocardiography should be the first tool used to evaluate potential dysfunction of a prosthetic heart valve, but other imaging modalities may be needed to get a clearer picture of the problem and the ...
September 9, 2009 — The American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Task Force on Prosthetic Valves have issued new guidelines for evaluation of prosthetic valves ...
Patients with failure of a surgical aortic bioprosthesis—which frequently occurs 10 to 15 years after surgery—fare worse after a transcatheter valve-in-valve (ViV) fix if the original valve ...
WASHINGTON (May 16, 2016) --Patients with a combination of left ventricular dysfunction and low aortic valve gradient, or reduced force of blood flow through the aortic valve, have higher mortality ...
Choosing the optimal aortic valve prosthesis for middle-aged patients (late 40s to early 60s) with aortic stenosis presents a challenge. The available options all have substantial drawbacks that must ...
In patients undergoing aortic-valve or mitral-valve replacement, either a mechanical or biologic prosthesis is used. Biologic prostheses have been increasingly favored despite limited evidence ...
An aortic annular abscess (aortic root abscess) can occur as a complication of aortic valve endocarditis and is more common on a prosthetic aortic valve. This is diagnosed predominantly on ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A sutureless aortic prosthesis for use in standard-risk surgical patients was associated with positive outcomes ...
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