Bronchitis may cause you to cough up blood, known as hemoptysis. Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchial tubes, or airways, that usually happens due to an infection or breathing in irritants ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as the world’s first transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful ...

Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s Sapien M3 secured CE mark for its Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system for transfemoral treatment of patients with mitral valve disease who are ineligible for surgery ...

Electronic provider notification led to more aortic valve replacement procedures after a diagnosis of severe aortic stenosis vs. usual care. There was a trend toward the intervention reducing ...

Without treatment, 1 in 10 patients experiencing symptoms of severe aortic stenosis (AS) may die within five weeks. However, the symptoms of severe AS can be difficult to detect and may progress ...

Thus, it is not surprising that patients originally suspected of having mitral regurgitation are later revealed as having aortic stenosis instead. When a predominantly apical systolic murmur ...

"The characteristics of NET vary widely from patient to patient, and very few treatment options have demonstrated the ability to improve outcomes across such a heterogeneous population," said ...

Hemoptysis may be absent in up to 30% of patients with pulmonary–renal syndrome, but the lack of hemoptysis in this patient warrants careful consideration of alternative diagnoses. 4,5 The ...

Some people call it your "pee hole." Meatal stenosis means this opening is too narrow. And passing urine (pee) can cause pain or discomfort. Meatal stenosis is fairly common. About 8 to 10 out of ...

These valve lesions include severe aortic stenosis, as well as severe symptomatic mitral stenosis, especially when pulmonary hypertension is present. In contrast to regurgitant lesions ...

Your heart has four chambers, each with a valve that allows blood to exit. Healthy valves open wide to let blood move freely through the heart and body. They then shut tightly until the next ...