Aortic stenosis is a type of heart valve disease. Your doctor may classify it as mild, moderate, or severe. Which stage you have depends on how damaged your aortic valve is and the amount of blood ...

An aortic stenosis murmur is systolic. Doctors grade systolic murmurs from 1 to 6, depending on how loud they are. Grade 1 is faint and harder to hear, whereas grade 6 is the loudest and most ...

In patients greater than age 65, more than 90% of aortic stenosis involves trileaflet valves which have developed heavy calcification. [5] In these instances the calcium deposits are thought to ...

Aortic stenosis is usually a slowly progressive disease ... The heart seemed moderately enlarged and there was a Grade III rough systolic murmur over the precordium, faintly heard in the right ...

People with severe aortic stenosis should have it done every six to 12 months. (Howard LeWine, M.D., is an internist at ...

Women are less likely than men to be given treatment for a potentially fatal heart condition, according to a new analysis.

Aortic valve stenosis can lead to chest pain ... or if a valve disease or heart defect caused it: Doctors grade heart murmurs by how intense or loud they are. The systolic grading system is ...

The advent of ATTR-specific drugs, though pricey, is enabling better survival in these overlapping diseases, researchers say.

Women are less likely than men to receive treatment for aortic stenosis, a new study supported by the British Heart ...

Grade I murmurs may not be audible to the ... For example, the murmur of aortic stenosis is high pitched because there is usually a large pressure gradient between the left ventricle and the ...

Aortic stenosis happens when your aortic valve does not open all the way causing pressure to build in the left ventricle. This pressure blocks blood flow as it leaves the heart. In other words, the ...