Careful auscultation of heart murmurs is an extremely valuable ... A murmur will be high pitched if there is a large pressure gradient across the pathologic lesion and low pitched if the pressure ...

A complete discussion of valvular heart disease is found elsewhere ... a very thin patient with severe aortic stenosis with a high pressure gradient across the valve (thus high velocity of ...

Researchers report that classification of severe aortic stenosis using a pressure wire to assess gradient across the aortic valve was ... much,” lead investigator Zaher Fanari, MD (Prairie Heart ...

Heart rate, blood pressure ... Another patient, who was found to have peak and mean aortic-valve pressure gradients of 73 and 55 mm Hg, respectively, with an aortic-valve area of 0.4 cm 2 at ...

Aficamten is an oral selective cardiac myosin inhibitor that reduces left ventricular outflow tract gradients ... New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class, change in the pressure ...