Dear Mayo Clinic: I have a condition called aortic stenosis, which I am told prevents blood from getting out of my heart. Is it true that I don’t have to have surgery to have this valve replaced? What ...

For people experiencing severe aortic stenosis who do not have symptoms or need symptom relief, early aortic valve replacement surgery may be beneficial because it reduces the risk of death, heart ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of ...

Age, sex, and the time delay to surgery, in addition to the degree of stenosis, all affect the risk of stroke in patients receiving carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for symptomatic disease, according to a ...

NEITHER GLASSES. NORMALLY A BUSY WOMAN WHO LIKES TO TRAVEL. BUT SHE SAYS HER SPINAL STENOSIS DIAGNOSIS TWO YEARS AGO CHANGED EVERYTHING. IT WAS DEBILITATING. I COULDN’T EVEN WALK. I WAS IN A ...

Temple Health is on the forefront of a cutting edge procedure that will change how a common condition is treated. Spinal stenosis occurs with normal wear and tear of an aging body. But that doesn't ...

Patients with severe aortic stenosis fared well getting surgery before developing symptoms as opposed to watchful waiting, according to the small AVATAR trial. The cohort randomized to early aortic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The RHEIA trial included enrolled-only women randomly assigned to transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve ...

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) gives broadly comparable results to conventional open surgery, with equal efficacy, faster recovery time and improved quality of life at one year, ...

In the AVATAR trial, patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and normal left ventricular function assigned early surgical aortic valvular replacement, compared with watchful waiting, had a ...

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, underwent surgery Monday to treat spinal stenosis, according to her office. Dr. Judith L. Gorelick, a board-certified neurosurgeon, performed the surgery at ...

MONTREAL — Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis (EDAS) surgery, which involves rerouting brain arteries, showed promise in a phase 2a study of 52 patients who had had ...