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

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 ...

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 ...

Long-axis parasternal view, revealing the intensity of calcification and doming of the aortic cusps in systole. Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) diameter may be measured for valve area ...

including fibrosis and calcification. Looking forward, we aim to engineer co-culture models to interrogate the interplay between valve and immune cells. Critical size bone defects present a major ...

In MR, blood flows backwards through the mitral valve into the atrium with each ... in May 2024 for treating MR and mitral ...

“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 ...