Recent research from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems) provides important new insights into how aortic valve size is associated with the degree of valve calcification in severe ...

In asymptomatic patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, the survival is similar to age-matched controls. [1,16] The mainstay of medical treatment for these patients is simply appropriate ...

Examination revealed moderately severe congestive heart failure ... but it seems fairly certain that the slight calcification of the aortic valves accounted for the cardiac auscultatory findings.

A ratio of <0.25 is generally consistent with severe and >0.3 with mild or moderate aortic stenosis (Figure 5). Long-axis parasternal view, revealing the intensity of calcification and doming of ...

AVR is generally not indicated if asymptomatic unless echocardiographic surveillance reveals rapidly progressing aortic stenosis with LV dysfunction or severe calcification of the aortic valve.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A first-of-its-kind therapy successfully slowed plaque progression in patients with aortic stenosis.