Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), ...

5. Alexander JH et al. Feasibility of point-of-care echo by non-cardiologist physicians to assess left ventricular function, pericardial effusion, mitral regurgitation and aortic valve thickening.

The progression of aortic stenosis goes from mild, where we see just mild calcification in the valves not really that tight, to moderate. It's tightening a bit. It's thickening more.

A machine learning algorithm detected severe aortic stenosis using audio files from a set of patients with accuracy similar to board-certified cardiologists, according to findings from a proof-of ...

Recent breakthroughs in the transcatheter treatment of aortic and mitral valve disorders provide new therapies for patients, but physicians must be able to detect valve problems in a timely manner ...

Listen to Systole A murmur heard best here suggests tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation, mitral valve prolapse, or aortic stenosis.

One patient (Case 14) with coarctation of the aorta, hypertension and aortic regurgitation resulting from a bicuspid aortic valve is included; she had been receiving protoveratrine by mouth for ...

Barrett recruited a total of 1,098 cardiologists to undergo assessment of their auscultation skills at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions over four years, from 2011 to 2014.

So we know exactly what size valve we would use," notes Dr. Fiss. Around 95% of TAVR procedures at Temple are under sedation, not general anesthesia, and only require one night in the hospital.