Healio

Bicuspid Aortic Valves Present Challenges for TAVR

Most clinical research for transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis has been performed in patients with tricuspid aortic valves. However, many patients who ...
Medindia

Bicuspid Aortic Valve - Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Which doctor should I consult for bicuspid aortic valve? A: A cardiologist or cardiac surgeon should be consulted for bicuspid aortic valve disease. A: The choice of valve will depend on patients’ ...
TCTMD

Medtronic Announces Clinical Study of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Aortic Stenosis Patients with Bicuspid Valves

DUBLIN - Medtronic plc today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an investigational device exemption (IDE) to initiate a single-arm study to evaluate the CoreValve ...
Healio

Balloon-expandable TAVR safe in bicuspid aortic valves

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Patients with bicuspid aortic valves who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a ...
TCTMD

TAVR for Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis? Registry Offers Clues to Safety, Outcomes

WASHINGTON, DC—Registry data released earlier this week at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2017 Scientific Session suggest that transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with ...
Medscape

Reassurance on TAVR for Bicuspid Valves

Reassurance on the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with bicuspid valve stenosis has come from a new large observational dataset. TAVR has become the established ...
Medscape

Bicuspid aortic valves: Outlook good, but surveillance necessary

London, ON - The largest study to date to follow a population of young adults with bicuspid aortic valves over nine years has found that their survival is similar to the general population of the same ...
Medical Xpress

Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...
News Tribune

Mayo Clinic Q And A: What is a bicuspid aortic valve?

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I consider myself to be in good health. I work out several times a week, but recently I began experiencing episodes of shortness of breath after going up and down the stairs in my ...

Olympian Roger Black: Four months after open-heart surgery, I was back jogging

As a super-fit Olympic medallist, I always felt a bit of a fraud as I sat in the cardiology unit waiting for my annual ...
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Bicuspid Aortic Valve

What is Bicuspid Aortic Valve? Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a very common congenital cardiac malformation. It afflicts about 1-2% of population with a predominance in males. The aorta is the main ...