including those that mimic mitral stenosis, is below. In rheumatic heart disease, an autoimmune attack on the mitral valve produces thickening of the valve leaflets. The mitral valve is often desc ...

Valvular heart disease ... to the body. Mitral regurgitation happens when blood leaks backward from the left ventricle to the left atrium when the valve is closed. Mitral valve stenosis is ...

For most of history, the human heart has been regarded ... reported on a daring procedure to correct mitral stenosis: a condition where the mitral valve (see Hot Science) is narrowed and won ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is present in 30-40% of patients presenting for mitral valve surgery. In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased ...

Any four valves can malfunction, although severe aortic stenosis is the most common indication for valve replacement. Mitral ...

If you've been told you have a tight valve, or stenosis, this American Heart Association video explains what it means and why it matters to your heart health. Valvular insufficiency or leakage happens ...

Fourteen of the patients had pure or predominant mitral stenosis ... as serious in patients with mitral-valve disease as it in in those with congenital heart disease. It is concluded that valve ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that traces the development of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve by a young ... implanted in a human in 1960 in Portland.

Recently published in Heart, a BMJ Journal ... weakening of the aortic wall, and aortic stenosis, or narrowing of the aortic valve. Nonsyndromic means that the condition is not part of another ...

A process used in structural heart interventions that includes mitral valvuloplasty ... aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system to treat symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. During the same month ...

including conditions that mimic mitral stenosis, is below. In rheumatic heart disease, autoimmune inflammation involving the mitral valve produces thickening of the valve leaflets and commissural ...