Olympic 400m silver medallist and two-time 400m relay world champion Roger Black reveals he had open heart surgery three ...

Growing up with a heart disease, Ashley Pecora never knew what her life was going to look like—until two years ago when she ...

While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated with ... 25% of patients required surgery on their aorta, 53% required valve replacement, and 26% developed aortic aneurysms over the ...

New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be performed by highly trained specialists.

Kennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart ...

This minimally invasive procedure makes small incisions and inserts a thin, flexible catheter with a prosthetic valve into the heart, providing an alternative to open heart surgery. TAVI for pure ...

“All of the doctors and nurses took amazing care of me and made the surgery as painless as possible.” Schwarzenegger was born with a bicuspid aortic valve, which both his mother and maternal ...

Six years ago, the mother of four was lying in a hospital bed, recovering from open-heart surgery after her condition had ...

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population. The condition ...

Objective In this study, the impact of regular training on left ventricle morphology in a group of athletes with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) was evaluated. Design Longitudinal cohort study. A group of ...

Contribution of rare chromosome 22q11.2 copy number variants to non-syndromic bicuspid aortic valve. Heart , 2024; heartjnl-2024-324669 DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2024-324669 Cite This Page : ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease ...