The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...

The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of tissue called cusps that open and close to keep blood flowing in only one direction . Sometimes, the aortic valve opening narrows – a ...

A relatively common sequela is calcification of the aortic valve cusps remitting in calcific aortic stenosis. The elderly population in the United States, which was 34 million in 1995, will double ...

The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally "bicuspid." Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...

It was that final test that found the source of the problem: an extremely rare heart condition called a quadricuspid aortic ...

The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of the body. So the heart pumps blood through the aortic valve to all the cells in the body.

In other structural heart news, Abbott commenced the first subject procedures last month with its transcatheter aortic valve implantation ... outcomes when using the cusp overlap technique ...