(UPDATED) Lipoprotein(a) is associated with the development of aortic valve calcification (AVC), but the atherogenic lipoprotein does not appear to be linked to the progression of calcification over ...

Older patients and those with chronic kidney disease who have abdominal aortic calcification are at elevated risk for future CV events and poorer prognosis, according to results published in the ...

Patients who were on the drugs between a baseline EBCT scan and a second one obtained at least six months later showed slower aortic-valve calcium-score progression than those not on ACE ...

Serial imaging showed it, and a lab experiment nailed it — at least in vitro. Elevations in two biomarkers further the progression of aortic valve calcification, and their inhibition might ...

New insights into the prevalence of aortic valve calcification—and its progression—among carriers of a common genetic mutation may reopen a long-simmering debate about the role of statins in ...

Appropriate imaging can help identify patients who need intensive medical treatment. Calcification in the cardiac valves and aorta portends worse survival and progresses faster in patients with ...

In addition, the treatment group showed significantly less extensive valve lesions than the control group as well as reduced aortic valve calcification.

Computed tomography (CT)-based measures of calcification in the abdominal aorta are strong predictors of heart attacks and other adverse cardiovascular events -- stronger even than the widely used ...

Although valve replacement is the current treatment of choice for severe critical aortic stenosis, 44 future insights into the mechanisms of calcification and its progression might indicate lipid ...

Aortic valve calcification--the buildup of calcium on heart valves--was once thought to be harmless but is now seen as an early sign of heart disease. In a study presented at RSNA 2011, researchers ...

Researchers have analyzed gene expression and protein distribution in human aortic valves obtained from valve replacement surgery. Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) -- a disease that leaves the ...