Aortic valve replacement

This type of heart valve disease reduces or blocks blood flow from the heart to the body. Know the symptoms and how it's treated.

Complete heart valve surgery exercise guidelines by Dr Bill Sukala. Find out what exercises you can do, what intensity, how long, and effects of medications

TAVR allows a diseased aortic heart valve to be replaced without open-chest surgery, providing hope to patients who are considered inoperable or at high risk for surgery.

Get critical insights and facts about your aorta and bicuspid aortic valves from Dr. Paul Fedak, a heart surgeon who helped write the AATS guidelines.

The Bentall procedure technique has evolved to become a standardized, reliable procedure that can be performed for a variety of aortic vavle and aorti

This minimally invasive procedure to replace a narrowed aortic valve is an option to open-heart valve surgery. Learn about the benefits and risks of TAVR.

Learn about this condition in which one or more of the heart valves doesn't work properly.

UChicago Medicine heart specialists developed and refined a technique called sternal plating to close the breastbone after open-heart surgery. Benefits include reduced risk of infection in high-risk patients, less pain and shorter hospital stays.

This minimally invasive procedure to replace a narrowed aortic valve is an option to open-heart valve surgery. Learn about the benefits and risks of TAVR.