That's because severe aortic stenosis can sometimes cause blood pressure ... or changes in the pulse's strength in the neck ...

Figure 3a: Neck angiogram lateral (side) view of the left carotid artery. There is severe stenosis or narrowing of the internal carotid artery (red arrow) at its origin. Figure 3b: Lateral view of the ...

A risk model accurately identifies patients with severe asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis and predicts their risk for stroke and CVD.

For patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, current guidelines recommend routine clinical surveillance every 6 to 12 months. Data from ...

The EVOLVED trial found that early aortic valve intervention in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS) and ...

In a trial that many are calling landmark, transcatheter aortic valve replacement had better outcomes than surveillance for ...

Researchers found that 26.8% and 45.3% of patients in the TAVR and clinical surveillance groups had a primary end point event.

Samuel Cerami, 53, was willing to try anything after four years of neck pain and limb numbness ... New York, had severe spinal stenosis, which is when the nerves are squashed by a narrowing ...

The RHEIA trial studied women with severe aortic stenosis and found that participants preferred transcatheter aortic valve replacement over surgical valve replacement.

The NOTION-3 study investigated if routine revascularization with PCI and transcatheter aortic valve replacement improves ...

More information: Philippe Généreux et al, Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis, New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2405880 ...

Hemodynamic obstruction (stenosis) appears when more than half of its normal area is lost and clinical symptoms (exertional angina, dyspnea and syncope) usually appear when severe stenosis is ...