Calcium deposits can grow within the three tissue flaps that make up the valve, called leaflets, stiffening them and leaving ...

With fibrosis of the cardiac skeleton there is calcification at the base of the aortic valve and damage to the His bundle as it perforates the right fibrous trigone. Finally there is decreased ...

Despite advances in prevention and optimal medical therapy, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.

Because the caseating calcification of the mitral valve ring caused no symptoms (mitral valve failure/stenosis, cardiac arrhythmias, systemic emboli) in our patient, no treatment was given in this ...

“In pure AR patients, there is no aortic annulus or leaflet calcification for stable anchoring of a transcatheter heart valve,” explains Yingqiang Guo, a professor of cardiac surgery and vice ...

While the average decrease in valve area in elderly patients is 0.12 cm 2 per year, this varies greatly between patients. [17] Therefore, frequent follow up is recommended. In most cases ...