Background Cardiogenic shock (CS) induced by severe aortic stenosis (AS) is a life-threatening condition with high mortality.

THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...

Two-dimensional echocardiography can demonstrate a thickened aortic valve, reduced leaflet mobility and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy. The severity of aortic stenosis is determined by ...

In principle, the blood volume passing through a stenotic valve (aortic stenosis) is equal to the blood volume proximal to the stenosis or in the LVOT (Figure 4). The stroke volume is equal to ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

Otherwise, we will use conscious sedation without a ventilator. We may also use transesophageal echocardiography (a type of ultrasound) to see your aortic valve inserted while you are asleep and then ...

The diagnosis of aortic stenosis is made mostly on physical examination and by echocardiography. The ECG in patients with aortic stenosis frequently shows left ventricular hypertrophy with strain ...

With FDA approval in the bag for its AI-based aortic stenosis diagnostic tool, Echo IQ is focused on commercialisation over ... Read More The post Dr Boreham’s Crucible: Can this aortic stenosis ...

the bicuspid valve had previously been surgically replaced. Aortic dimensions on their last echocardiogram prior to dissection were 52 and 50 mm, both of which were increased from their baseline ...