Stenosis can be caused by rheumatic fever or other problems, and the Edwards valve is useless for those.
Without surgery, however, the patients with severe aortic stenosis invariably decline and risks of death are quite high.
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But there is at least a theoretical reason that Zetia might succeed in aortic stenosis where statins have not.
As a result, he sustained multiple fractures and was in a coma for two weeks, leading to tracheal stenosis.
Complex fusions increased 15-fold among Medicare beneficiaries with spinal stenosis from 2002 to 2007, according to the JAMA study.
"Overall, I'm very pleased with the fact that intense cholesterol lowering reduces coronary events in patients with aortic stenosis, " said Braunwald.
With FDA approval patients with severe aortic stenosis who could undergo either strategy, or have no intervention, will be facing a difficult decision.
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Other conditions associated with similar symptoms that need to be considered include spinal stenosis, peripheral neuropathy, certain musculoskeletal conditions and deep venous thrombosis.
Petersburg, was in an automobile accident and subsequently lapsed into a coma for an extended period, during which she sustained cicatricial stenosis of the trachea.
For now, this procedure is usually limited to individuals who have a narrowed aortic valve (aortic stenosis) rather than aortic regurgitation and are considered at high-risk for surgical complications.
But when doctors told Mrs Whitfield, who suffers from heart defect mitral stenosis, that she was putting a strain on her heart serious enough to require an operation, she decided to take action.
In SEAS, Vytorin failed to do better than placebo at treating a heart valve disease called aortic stenosis, but it did reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and operations to unclog arteries.
The blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin failed to improve a rare heart valve condition called aortic stenosis and seemed to increase rates of cancer, a new study says, dealing another blow to the top-selling drug and its makers, Merck and Schering-Plough .
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