Valve thrombosis can occur in mechanical prosthetic valves and is increasingly recognised in transcatheter and surgically implanted bioprosthetic valves. The risk of thrombosis of mechanical valves is ...

[1] While contrast agents have not been a critical part of image acquisition in echocardiography, image quality may be suboptimal, particularly in obese patients, in critically ill, ventilated ...

Other factors associated with annular rupture include device oversizing and post-dilatation (38). The mitral valve, annulus and associated apparatus form a complex 3D structure. Although ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mechanical heart valve replacements in patients aged 50 to 70 years show better long-term survival compared to biological valves. No short-term differences were ...

Assessment Prior to stress testing, a complete echocardiogram should be performed at rest, particularly in patients in whom coronary artery bypass grafting is planned and mitral valve repair ...

However, one retrospective study of mitral valve prolapse with less-than-severe MR at their index echo, demonstrated more than half of patients experienced MR progression and/or development of LV ...

Based on the results from the MATTERHORN (A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Study to Assess Mitral Valve Reconstruction for Advanced Insufficiency of Functional or Ischemic Origin), transcatheter ...

However, there are key differences in the studies that make a 1:1 comparison difficult. For one, the patients in the RESHAPE-HF2 trial had less severe mitral valve regurgitation than did those in the ...

The assessment of clinical outcomes was based on the Valve Academic Research Consortium criteria. 10 Paravalvular leak severity was classified according to the recommended echocardiography criteria as ...

Citation: Mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients aged 60, study finds (2025, January 27) retrieved 19 February 2025 from https://medicalxpress ...