Our Doctor Asked if We Wanted Kids. What He Said Left Us Speechless
During a routine test, Johnny's middle school nurse discovered his severe scoliosis, a prevalent symptom of Marfan. This unexpectedly set his family on a path to uncover his underlying diagnosis at ...
Congenital heart disease: Doctor shares types, treatment and prevention of this birth defect
Congenital heart disease is usually detected by Electrocardiogram (ECG), chest X-ray, and 2D echocardiography. Know the ...
BMJ18d
Aortic dilatation patterns and rates in adults with bicuspid aortic valves: a comparative study with Marfan syndrome and degenerative aortopathy
Design and setting Retrospective, observational study. Aortic dilatation progression was evaluated in two tertiary care centres (US and European) by repeated echocardiography ≥2 years apart in adults ...
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Dissection of the aorta in Turner syndrome: two cases and review of 85 cases in the literature
An echocardiogram performed at the time of the initial TS evaluation found a non-obstructive, functionally bicuspid aortic valve and trace aortic valve insufficiency. The patient had a mildly dilated ...
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Cardiac Computed Tomography: Application in Valvular Heart Disease
As annular dilatation is often a key pathological process ... Cardiac CT has become an irreplaceable adjunct to echocardiography in the clinical assessment of significant aortic stenosis and with the ...
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Impact of valve morphology, hypertension and age on aortic wall properties in patients with coarctation: a two-centre cross-sectional study
The cardiac MRI protocol included standard balanced fast field echo cine imaging with at least two slices ... of the ascending aorta in patients with CoA and BAVD where aortic dilation was present, ...
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Mortality associated with moderate and severe mitral regurgitation in 608 570 men and women undergoing echocardiography
Methods Echocardiography reports from 608 570 individuals were ... aFMR was defined (using echocardiographic measurement data17 as severe left atrial (LA) dilatation in the setting of no/mild LV ...
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Aortic Valves Surpass Prosthetics in Long-Term Survival
Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a ...
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SGLT2 Inhibitors May Slow Nonsevere Aortic Stenosis Progression
For the first time, researchers said SGLT2 inhibitors may have some disease-modifying potential for nonsevere aortic stenosis ...
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BLOG: Who cares about dilation reversal? Patients do
In the trial, Ryzumvi returned many patients’ pupils to pre-dilation diameter as soon as 60 to 90 minutes after dilation. A similar topical version of this drug is in the approval process for ...
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Fast Degradation of MecciRNAs by SUPV3L1/ELAC2 Provides a Novel Opportunity to Tackle Heart Failure With Exogenous MecciRNA
BACKGROUND: Circular RNAs derived from both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes are identified in animal cells.
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Mechanical aortic valves showed improved long-term survival in patients aged 60 and younger
A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...