Dr Scherman said: "Inspired by the success of TAVI for calcific aortic valve disease, we developed a simplified TAVI device for transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with rheumatic ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2013;11(2):239-250. In developed countries, rheumatic fever is nowadays infrequent and rheumatic AS is becoming an increasingly rare disease in this part of the world ...

Valvular aortic stenosis is typically due to degenerative calcification, postinflammatory fibrocalcific disease (i.e., rheumatic heart disease), or a congenitally bicuspid valve. Calcification is ...

Heart valve disease and heart valve surgery.... Skip to main content ... Stenosis happens most often in the aortic valve, but can occur in any of the heart’s four valves. When a healthy aortic ... but ...

Background: There are insufficient data regarding how to deal with moderate aortic valve (AV) dysfunction during rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery. In this study, the clinical outcomes of ...

Normally, heart valves separate the chambers of the heart and keep blood flowing in the right direction. If they allow blood to flow backward or make it difficult ...

TCT 644: Burden of Non-Rheumatic Calcific Aortic Valve Disease and Non-Rheumatic Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease in High-Income North America and West Europe From 1990 to 2021. Presenter: Vidit ...

For people who have aortic stenosis (AS) due to rheumatic heart disease (RHD), transcatheter valve implantation may be a “viable and possibly durable option” compared with surgical valve replacement, ...

Two cm. above the aortic valve a transverse tear was found in the aortic wall that entered ... it may be extremely difficult to differentiate this condition and rheumatic aortic valvular disease.

More than 60,000 people die from heart valve disease (HVD) in the U.S. each year, according to the American Heart Association 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update.

Cape Town, South Africa 9 Sept 2016: A novel heart valve replacement method is revealed today that offers hope for the thousands of patients with rheumatic heart disease who need the procedure ...