When an untreated infection leads to heart valve disease
Much as he tried, Gabriel Oluka could never keep up with other children.
Feb 24, 2020
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Much as he tried, Gabriel Oluka could never keep up with other children.
Feb 24, 2020
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(Medical Xpress) -- An innovative approach for implanting a new aortic heart valve without open-heart surgery is being offered at Rush University Medical Center to patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high-risk ...
Jun 28, 2011
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Tracey and Tim Sheehan had run out of options for their son, Ryan, who was born with a complex set of heart defects. His great arteries came from the wrong sides of the heart, his lower chambers were switched, there was a ...
May 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Veronica Smith, 26, of Sierra Vista was the first person in Arizona to receive a new pulmonary valve without having open-heart surgery. The procedure took place at University Medical Center.
Apr 18, 2011
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Most people who need open heart surgery to repair damaged heart valves are aged 65 or older. The American Heart Association (AHA) estimates that nearly 8 million people have had heart surgeries. However, we don't fully understand ...
Oct 12, 2018
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Penn Medicine has performed more than 1,200 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacements (TAVR) on patients with severe aortic stenosis. Today, at the Transcatheter Cardiac Therapeutics conference in San Francisco, Howard C. Herrmann, ...
Oct 15, 2015
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A gene known to be important in cardiac development has been newly associated with congenital heart malformations that result in obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract. These are the findings from a study conducted ...
Apr 29, 2011
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New recommendations clarify which patients who have malfunctioning heart valves may benefit from artificial valves replaced through a minimally invasive procedure; clarify the need for antibiotics for some patients prior ...
Mar 15, 2017
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Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death worldwide. Aortic stenosis—the narrowing of the valve that controls blood flow from the heart—is one of the most common heart valve diseases, with up to one ...
Oct 28, 2021
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An international study led by a researcher from Tel Aviv University offers a novel technology that can assist many patients implanted with bioprosthetic heart valves by avoiding additional complicated replacement surgery. ...
Mar 1, 2022
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