Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal condition, affecting about five per cent of 65-year-olds in the US -- with increasing prevalence in advancing age. Symptoms include chest ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

The wiring diagram and its data, freely available through the MICrONS Explorer, are 1.6 petabytes in size (equivalent to 22 years of non-stop HD video), and offer never-before-seen insight into ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Doctors at Duke Health have performed the first living mitral valve transplant, saving three young girls in North Carolina. After an 11-year-old received a heart ...

Introduction: Severe aortic stenosis (AS) produces a typical systolic ... The systole & diastole were assessed by creating Wiggers diagrams from the LV outflow & mitral valve inflow ECHO images.

HEMOPTYSIS occurs quite frequently as a consequence of mitral stenosis, but massive, life-threatening pulmonary hemorrhage is distinctly unusual. 1–4,5,6 Oppenheimer and Schwartz 3 have termed ...

The purpose of the present study is to reinvestigate the association of hypertension and mitral stenosis. A series of 517 cases of mitral stenosis were therefore reviewed. The diagnosis was ...

Significant mitral stenosis (MS) is defined as a mitral valve area (MVA) below 1.5 cm². Invasive treatment is usually indicated when clinical symptoms are present. According to current guidelines, a ...

Mitral valve prolapse differs from mitral valve stenosis. In mitral valve stenosis, the mitral valve is stiff and constricted. In mitral valve prolapse, the valve slips backward due to the ...

shows promise for treating patients with severe calcific mitral stenosis (MS) and no other surgical or transcatheter treatment options. But until recently, evidence of its value has been sparse ...