Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as an accepted indication for non-operable patients with severe symptomatic native aortic valve stenosis (AS) and as a reasonable alternative for high-risk surgical ...

Background Surgical valve repair is a good alternative for correction of incompetent bicuspid aortic valve. Aim: to report the early and late surgical, clinical and ecochardiographic results of surgical repair of incompetent ...

Background: We aimed to provide a comprehensive aortic stiffness description using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with ascending thoracic aorta aneurysm and tricuspid (TAV-ATAA) or bicuspid (BAV) aortic valve. ...

Approximately 1 in 100 adults are born with congenital heart disease, which can be characterized, according to its complexity, as simple, moderate, or severe on the basis of the morbidity and mortality associated with each ...

Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is a chronic disorder characterized by an abnormal mineralization of the leaflets, which is accelerated in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV). It is suspected that mechanical strain may ...

Although infective endocarditis (IE) has been described in reports dating from the Renaissance, the diagnosis still challenges and the outcome often surprises. In the course of time, diagnostic criteria have been updated ...