Surgery is still the treatment of choice in infants with an aortic coarctation with a mortality rate of less than 1%. Balloon dilatation should be avoided in children and neonates as it is less ...

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.

The coexistence of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR‐CA) and aortic stenosis (AS) is increasingly recognized, but the clinical consequences are unclear. We aimed to characterize clinical ...

However, as with any claims‐based study, there are limitations in the granularity of clinical data available. Screening for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR‐CA) in patients with severe aortic ...

ANEURYSMS of the thoracic aorta may be of diverse etiology. Atherosclerosis, syphilis, medial degeneration, trauma and occasionally sepsis have been implicated. 1–4 The present case represents a ...