Pulmonic valve regurgitation occurs when blood leaks abnormally backward from the pulmonary artery through the pulmonic valve into the right ventricle. This can result in right heart failure. Pulmonic ...

RAPID advances in surgery have made an understanding of the significance of any potentially correctable valvular defect as important as the ability to establish an exact diagnosis. As an isolated ...

Hello and greetings from Bronx, New York. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I thought I'd share with you something ...

The findings come on the heels of the US Food and Drug Administration approving the Harmony system (Medtronic) in March as the first nonsurgical heart valve to treat pulmonary valve regurgitation in ...

IN 1888 Graham Steell described his now famous left-sternal-border diastolic murmur and attributed its origin to pulmonary regurgitation caused by high pressure in the pulmonary artery in patients ...

Introduction to Valvular Heart Diseases (VHD), cardiac valves, aortic valve, mitral valve, tricuspid valve, pulmonic valve, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation (aortic insufficiency or aortic ...

The FDA gave the greenlight to transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement with the Sapien 3 system plus an adaptive pre-stent landing zone, dubbed Alterra, for patients with congenital heart disease.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data published in Chest support a lower tricuspid regurgitation velocity of 2.7 m per second for pulmonary ...

The concept of pulmonary insufficiency in ICD-10 could cost the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and taxpayers billions of dollars in waste, according to consultant Robert S. Gold, M.D. In a ...

Table 3 provides typical characteristics of common murmurs. The tricuspid stenosis murmur is diastolic and a soft rumble, heard best at the left lower sternal border. It will increase in intensity ...