Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves correcting or replacing the aortic valve. Bicuspid aortic valve is the most common congenital heart defect affecting about 1–2% of the general population.

If you or someone you love needs to have surgery for an aortic aneurysm, you’ll want to know what happens and what the recovery is like. This is the most common type of surgery to repair an ...

A 2020 study including 738 people undergoing surgery for an ascending aortic aneurysm found that 5.96% (44 people) died in the period shortly after surgery. Survival may also have improved over time.

Aortic root surgery (ARS) is a procedure to repair or replace the aortic root. There are various types of ARS surgery that come with different risks and benefits. The aorta is a large blood vessel ...

The FEVAR procedure reduces the recovery timeline for aortic aneurysm repairs to a month, compared to 11 months with conventional open surgery, LHSC officials say. SKIP TO MAIN CONTENT In the news ...

Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

Less invasive aortic aneurysm surgery will spare Windsor patients from pain, ... Eugene Krawchuk, 81, just had the procedure done on March 1 and was out of the hospital two days later. ...

Howard Chilson describes himself as a guinea pig, of sorts. He was the first patient to receive a new procedure to treat a specific aortic aneurysm in Michigan. "I had two choices—that, or being ...