Written By: Adam Choose, Affected person Advocate, Writer & Web site Founder
Printed: November 3, 2024
Collectively, our affected person neighborhood has a discovered loads about calcified aortic coronary heart valves through the years. As you might know, a calcified coronary heart valve can result in extreme aortic stenosis which is an under-diagnosed and life-threatening type of coronary heart illness. That mentioned, one of many large questions I proceed to get from sufferers is, “What does a calcified aortic valve seem like?”
Due to Dr. Neelan Doolabh, a number one minimally-invasive coronary heart valve surgeon at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, listed below are 5 footage taken throughout latest aortic valve alternative surgical procedures carried out by Dr. Doolabh. For instance, that may be a tri-leaflet aortic valve that has extreme calcification everywhere in the leaflets.
Here’s a close-up of one other calcified aortic valve that Dr. Doolabh needed to exchange.
Holy Moly! Right here is an especially calcified aortic valve. You’ll be able to see all of the calcium embedded throughout the leaflet tissue has primarily damaged aside as Dr. Doolabh eliminated the faulty coronary heart valve.
Dr. Doolabh additionally despatched us a calcified bicuspid aortic valve. As you might be most likely conscious, as much as 2% of the inhabitants has a bicuspid aortic valve which is a congenital coronary heart defect.
Many Thanks Dr. Neelan Doolabh and UT Southwestern!
On behalf of our affected person neighborhood, thanks a lot to Dr. Neelan Doolabh and your entire crew at UT Southwestern for taking such nice care of our sufferers with calcified aortic valves.
We actually admire your assist of our instructional initiatives!
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Carry on tickin!
Adam