Aortic insufficiency is a potentially severe condition that affects the heart’s ability to pump blood. There are many possible causes for this condition. Aortic insufficiency is a form of heart valve ...

PARIS -- The early commercial experience with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) for severe aortic regurgitation appeared promising, though device size issues and conduction ...

Barcelona, Spain - New data published this week question the role of vasodilators in patients with asymptomatic, chronic, severe aortic regurgitation [1]. In the randomized study, published in the ...

WASHINGTON, DC—There’s fresh evidence that off-label use of TAVR devices for pure native aortic valve regurgitation (NAVR) is associated with “not optimal” outcomes, although newer-generation devices, ...

However, aortic regurgitation (AR) remains an "off-label" indication for TAVR, particularly for patients with mild or absent leaflet calcification or aortic annulus dimensions beyond the size of the ...

PARIS -- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with an updated version of the JenaValve appeared feasible in patients with severe aortic regurgitation who were at high surgical risk, according ...

This paper reports the sequence of events in a patient with Marfan's syndrome who evidently acquired aortic insufficiency secondary to chest trauma and in whom a Hufnagel valve was inserted. A 33-year ...

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 recent observation of a case of massive infarction of the bowel in association with aortic insufficiency, without mesenteric arterial or venous occlusion, aroused our interest. Records of this ...

What is responsible for the myriad physical examination findings in patients with severe aortic regurgitation, including pulsation of multiple organs? When will the murmur of aortic valve ...