The success of a new procedure called TAVR is exceeding expectations and could offer hope to patients too sick for traditional surgery ...

TAVR lets patients recover much more quickly than open-heart surgery Patients who are facing an aortic-valve replacement can ask their doctor about having the TAVR procedure at OhioHealth ...

“In this context, TAVR may offer an alternative option for the treatment of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis in patients with prior chest radiation therapy.

It’s a procedure called a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Doctors describe the hybrid procedure as minimally invasive because it does not involve cracking the chest bone or making ...

The latest generation of Medtronic’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement implant has passed the FDA’s muster. | The main difference in the design of the Evolut FX+ is the addition of larger ...

If your doctor says you need surgery to replace your heart’s aortic valve, this is why you need it and what you can expect from the procedure and recovery.

William Beaumont Army Medical Center doctors performed the first Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement (TAVR) in El Paso at WBAMC, Nov. 17.

It is a serious procedure, that now has an alternative when treating Aortic Valve Stenosis. A Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement or TAVR procedure avoids cutting directly into the chest.

The TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure where the aortic heart valve is replaced, not by the conventional open-chest technique on a non-beating heart but introduced from a blood vessel in the ...

Point-of-care lung ultrasound is better than chest x-ray for diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia, according to new research.

Nearly half of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have short febrile episodes after the procedure, but documented bacterial infections and complications are rare. In a ...

With TAVR, instead of opening the chest, physicians insert a new valve using a catheter threaded into the heart through a small incision in the groin or chest wall. Trials are currently underway to ...