Sentences with phrase «severe aortic»

Patients treated with the self - expanding TAVR device also reported improvement in NYHA classifications, durable improvement in hemodynamic valve performance, and low rates of moderate or severe aortic insufficiency.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a self - expanding valve prosthesis for the first time has demonstrated significantly lower death rates at one year compared with conventional surgical valve replacement in high - risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

Worldwide, an estimated 300,000 people have severe aortic stenosis — a faulty valve in the main artery carrying blood out of the heart — and roughly a third of them are deemed unable to withstand the standard treatment of open - heart surgery to replace the valve.

The FDA approved the CoreValve System to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk for surgery based on groundbreaking research showing the transcatheter heart valve had superior survival rates at one year when compared to open - heart surgery, the current gold standard for aortic valve replacement.

He continued: «Moreover, TAVI assumes an increasingly recognised role in the treatment of elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis, who also suffer from AF in more than 30 % of cases.

TAVR was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2011 to treat patients with severe aortic valve stenosis — a problem that occurs when the valve in the heart's main artery doesn't open fully and forces the heart to work harder to pump blood — for whom standard surgical valve replacement is too risky.

The database is designed to provide information that can help hospitals improve the quality of care for patients with severe aortic stenosis and help patients make informed decisions about this new form of heart valve replacement.

Not exact matches

Another caution against use is for those with specific cardiac ailments including severe narrowing of the aortic valve, recent heart attack, and unstable angina.

However, when methionine - rich diets are used to induce hyperhomocysteinemia... Mice fed methionine - rich diets had significant atheromatous pathology in the aortic arch even with normal plasma homocysteine levels, whereas mice fed B vitamin - deficient diets developed severe hyperhomocysteinemia without any increase in vascular pathology.

A small number of cats can suffer from feline aortic thromboembolism (FATE)-- a blood clot in the aorta that causes blockage of blood flow to the back legs (most commonly), leading to sudden paralysis, severe pain, and often, death.

However, since subvalvular aortic stenosis can worsen as a young dog matures, animals with moderate to severe disease may require medication.

For example, cats with certain types of heart conditions are at increased risk of suffering from a severe, rapid - onset, and painful condition known as «saddle thrombus» (more correctly called «Aortic Thromboembolism,» or ATE).

She was diagnosed with severe congenital subvalvular pulmonic stenosis (PS) with dysplasia of the pulmonary artery and mild valvular aortic stenosis with secondary right ventricular hypertrophy.

The Symetis portfolio includes the ACURATE TA ™ and ACURATE neo / TF valve * systems for use in the treatment of high - risk patients suffering from severe and symptomatic aortic valve stenosis, which are sold in Europe and in other geographies outside of the United States.

In addition to multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease, this could include severe burns, Parkinson's disease, deafness, coma, aplastic anemia, aortic surgery, blindness, Alzheimer's disease, bacterial meningitis, loss of limbs, loss of speech, HIV infection (occupational), and heart valve replacement.

Severe cases of aortic regurgitation often require a valve replacement or repair.

Granted, an insurance company might deny coverage if your aortic stenosis is severe.

Typical conditions covered by an individual critical illness insurance policy are: cancer, stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's disease, aortic surgery, aplastic anemia, bacterial meningitis, benign brain tumour, blindness, coma, coronary artery bypass surgery, deafness, heart valve replacement, kidney failure, loss of independent existence, loss of limbs, loss of speech, major organ failure on waiting list, major organ transplant, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, occupational HIV infection, paralysis, Parkinson's disease, and severe burns.

Typical conditions covered by Critical Illness are cancer, stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's disease, aortic surgery, aplastic anemia, bacterial meningitis, benign brain tumour, blindness, coma, coronary artery bypass surgery, deafness, heart valve replacement, kidney failure, loss of independent existence, loss of limbs, loss of speech, major organ failure on waiting list, major organ transplant, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, occupational HIV infection, paralysis, Parkinson's disease, and severe burns.