Just like a person’s own aortic valve, bioprosthetic replacement valves can become calcified or stenotic (narrowed) over time, which can...
Pages tagged: aortic stenosis
Women & Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Straight Talk Newsletter
Happy New Year! This month, I invited my colleague, interventional cardiologist Zvonimir Krajcer, MD to join me in educating our...
An aortic valve area in the range of 1-1.1 is in the gray zone of moderate to severe. Severe is...
Aortic Stenosis
Heart Health Topic
Stenosis means narrowing. Aortic stenosis (AVS) is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which is the valve that lets blood...
Diseases of the Aortic Valve
Heart Health Topic
Diseases of the heart valves are grouped according to which valve or valves are involved and the amount of blood...