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  • Aortic valve replacement is a cardiac surgery procedure whereby a failing aortic valve is replaced with an artificial heart valve. The aortic valve may...
    38 KB (4,477 words) - 03:54, 22 July 2024
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    Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a form of heart disease in which two of the leaflets of the aortic valve fuse during development in the womb resulting in...
    21 KB (2,392 words) - 04:35, 16 September 2024
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    syndrome; a bicuspid aortic valve; and previous heart surgery. Major trauma, smoking, cocaine use, pregnancy, a thoracic aortic aneurysm, inflammation...
    64 KB (7,308 words) - 05:57, 25 September 2024
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    Aortic regurgitation (AR), also known as aortic insufficiency (AI), is the leaking of the aortic valve of the heart that causes blood to flow in the reverse...
    34 KB (3,383 words) - 16:41, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aortic valve repair
    Aortic valve repair or aortic valve reconstruction is the reconstruction of both form and function of a dysfunctional aortic valve. Most frequently it...
    22 KB (2,977 words) - 03:01, 10 October 2023
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    failure of the aortic or other valve, then surgery (possibly a composite aortic valve graft or valve-sparing aortic root replacement) becomes necessary...
    73 KB (6,848 words) - 16:42, 16 September 2024
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    gastrointestinal bleeding—was 1.5%. However, in 2003 a study of 50 people with aortic stenosis severe enough to warrant immediate valve replacement found GI bleeding...
    24 KB (2,582 words) - 08:04, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mitral regurgitation
    including aortic insufficiency, nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, and noncompaction cardiomyopathy. Because the papillary muscles, chordae, and valve leaflets...
    35 KB (3,728 words) - 08:09, 15 July 2024
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    heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising...
    33 KB (3,058 words) - 23:15, 11 September 2024
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    distensibility in the heart valves and aorta. This provides the explanation for the aortic aneurysms and prolapsed valves that are commonly associated...
    29 KB (3,496 words) - 05:07, 30 September 2024
  • aorta and the left ventricle will equalize, and the aortic valve is open. In individuals with aortic stenosis or with HCM with an outflow tract gradient...
    82 KB (8,834 words) - 03:42, 19 August 2024
  • There were 51 with aortic valve replacement, 44 with mitral replacement, 3 with tricuspid and 12 who received multiple valve replacement. Following a technique...
    78 KB (10,740 words) - 23:39, 1 July 2024
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    isolated infrarenal or thoracic aortic repair. OAS is distinct from aortic valve repair and aortic valve replacement, as OAS describes surgery of the...
    24 KB (2,957 words) - 22:02, 6 September 2024
  • due to risk of motor damage after contact with a transcatheter aortic valve replacement stent. In March 2024, the FDA issued a warning about Impella left-sided...
    19 KB (2,051 words) - 21:39, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Annuloaortic ectasia
    Annuloaortic ectasia is characterized by pure aortic valve regurgitation and aneurysmal dilatation of the ascending aorta. Men are more likely than women...
    10 KB (821 words) - 03:05, 29 December 2023
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    Heart (section Valves)
    intervention. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement is increasingly used for patients consider very high risk for open valve replacement. Abnormal heart rhythms...
    143 KB (16,874 words) - 00:43, 25 September 2024
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    at <1% rupture risk per year. When the aneurysm meets size criteria it can be treated with aortic replacement or EVAR. Thoracic Thoracic aortic aneurysms...
    50 KB (5,414 words) - 06:59, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Infective endocarditis
    affecting the aortic valve in 1616. In 1806, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart coined the term vegetation to describe collections of debris found on a mitral valve affected...
    62 KB (6,987 words) - 05:06, 29 September 2024
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    artery bypass surgery Cardiac valve repair and/or replacement (aortic valve, mitral valve, tricuspid valve, pulmonic valve) Repair of large septal defects...
    34 KB (4,040 words) - 09:37, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tetralogy of Fallot
    of the left pulmonary artery, in 40% a bicuspid pulmonary valve, in 60% right-sided aortic arch, in 25% coronary artery anomalies, in 10% a patent foramen...
    78 KB (8,318 words) - 00:47, 2 October 2024
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