New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...

1 Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China 2 Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China ...

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population.

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.

Background Valve-related haemolysis is a known complication following prosthetic valve surgery. Haemolysis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been reported in some studies, all ...