Medical history included a minor stroke, a mechanical aortic valve prosthesis, and aortic ectasia. His vital parameters were normal. Auscultation detected no murmurs apart from prosthetic clicking.

The artificial valve might be mechanical (made of man-made substances). Others are made out of animal tissue, often from a pig. Aortic valve replacement gives you a new aortic heart valve. The new ...

TCT 540: Second-Generation Cryoballoon Ablation vs Contact-Force Sensing Radiofrequency Ablation in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Receive the the ...

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve ...

University Hospital Galway has become the first hospital in the country to use a new biological aortic heart valve on a patient.

Once the aortic aneurysm was discovered, Bugay was immediately scheduled for open-heart surgery to remove the aneurysm and repair his heart valve. The complex operation took several hours, Bagameri ...