| About the author |
| Adam Pick is a double, heart valve surgery patient and author of The Patient’s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery, a unique book which integrates the clinical facts of heart valve surgery with the personal experiences of 78 former valve surgery patients which suffered from aortic stenosis, mitral valve prolapse and other heart valve disorders. | |
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| (Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:24:58 -0700) |
| Bicuspid Aortic Valve Not Only Form Of Congenital Valve Disorder |
One of the most common, congenital heart defects is a bicuspid aortic valve.
A bicuspid aortic valve occurs when the human heart does not fully develop as the baby matures in the womb.
While normal aortic valves have three tissue leaflets to regulate the flow of blood in th |
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| (Published: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:56:17 -0700) |
| Aortic Stenosis Surgery to Change by 2015 |
Medical advances continue to shape the treatment and management of life threatening diseases specific to the human heart.
Such is the case for patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis, a life-threatening disease in which a heart valve narrows due to calcification, wear or infection.
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