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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement had similar rates of stroke and all-cause ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease is the most common congenital cardiac malformation, affecting up to 2% of the population. Characterised by the presence of only two valve leaflets instead of the ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in bicuspid anatomy provides outcomes roughly similar to those with tricuspid aortic stenosis among patients at low surgical risk, a large national ...

In patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis who are at low surgical risk, TAVI with a contemporary balloon-expandable valve provides outcomes similar to those achieved in patients who have tricuspid ...

Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has increasingly emerged as one of the primary treatments for ...

Two new analyses in low-risk patients suggest that clinical outcomes are as good in patients with congenital bicuspid anatomy undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation as it is in those with ...

Patients who have undergone surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm related to having a bicuspid aortic valve have a low risk of future aneurysm events even if participating in endurance exercise, a new ...

Genetic variants linked to a rare form of bicuspid aortic valve disease that affects young adults and can lead to dangerous and potentially life-threatening aortic complications have been identified ...

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, ...