A new study has found that rather than two dimensional echocardiography, MDCT can help measure the annular size more accurately in patients with aortic stenosis who are candidates for transcatheter ...

Background Aortic dimensions are critical for assessing the risk of acute aortic complications and guiding surgical interventions. Current guidelines define absolute diameter thresholds based largely ...

Although not for all patients assessed for aortic stenosis, EBCT could tilt the balance toward or away from a recommendation for surgery when echo findings are inconclusive, coauthor Dr Maurice ...

Background Patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) are at high risk of mortality, regardless of symptom status. Despite ...

Researchers at Michigan Medicine have found a novel method of measuring growth in the body’s largest artery that may help clinicians to identify potentially fatal heart conditions earlier. “The ...