FDA Panel Approves Sapien Heart Valve: An FDA advisory panel recently approved Edwards Lifesciences’ Sapien transcatheter heart valve, a novel device intended as an alternative for patients with severe aortic stenosis who are too frail for open-heart surgery.
Showing posts with label aortic stenosis. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Dr KK Answers:What is the prognosis in a case with low gradient aortic stenosis?
Patients with low gradient aortic stenosis (narrowed aortic valve) with preserved left heart pumping function (ejection fraction) and concentric left heart (ventricular) hypertrophy have a poor prognosis.
A new study also has shown that patients with low gradient aortic stenosis without concentric hypertrophy have outcomes similar to patients with moderate aortic stenosis.
Source: Circulation 2011; 123:887
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