In Nijmegen, Netherlands, researchers have installed the world's first microscope capable of live imaging of biological ...

Calcium deposits can grow within the three tissue flaps that make up the valve, called leaflets, stiffening them and leaving them unable to open all the way. "With calcification in blood vessels ...

In patients greater than age 65, more than 90% of aortic stenosis involves trileaflet valves which have developed heavy calcification. [5] In these instances the calcium deposits are thought to ...

A new microscope is capable of live imaging of biological processes in such detail that moving protein complexes are visible.

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Credit: Thinkstock Routine patient information, serology results, and cardiac ultrasound findings can identify patients at high risk for severe coronary artery calcification. Investigators have ...