Survival rates up for common heart defect

"Young adults with the most common type of congenital cardiac abnormality are likely to experience subsequent cardiac events. However, they do not appear to have lower survival rates compared to the general population, according to a new study. Patients with a bicuspid aortic valve in the heart, which is a valve that only has two flaps that open and close instead of three, were followed for an average of nine years. Twenty-five percent experienced one or more primary cardiac events, such as cardiac death, aortic death or congestive heart failure..." - Ivanhoe Newswire