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 ...
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 ...
DAVID MONTGOMERY: Aortic stenosis is a tightening of one of the four major valves of the heart. The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of ...
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Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from ...
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Kennesaw State Professor wins American Heart Association award for aortic valve researchKennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Institutional Enhancement Award to advance his study on bicuspid ...
New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...
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Mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients agedAnnual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for ...
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