Six-year follow-up from a trial comparing surgery with TAVR in low-risk patients showed no difference in major events, but ...

While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...

In the United States, cardiovascular health is especially important. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with aortic stenosis ...

A previous analysis in this trial showed that among patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis who were at low surgical risk, the rate of the composite end point of death, stroke, or ...

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) in Low-Risk Patients at 5 Years: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Receive the the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with small aortic annuli requiring TAVR, self-expanding valves had better hemodynamic results than ...

Both Gary LeGros, 70, a Jeanerette city judge, and Paul Herman Toups, an 84-year-old retired small-business owner, underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, a minimally invasive ...

FDA approved the Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) platform for treatment of severe aortic stenosis early in the disease process while patients still had no symptoms or other ...

PHOENIX — Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix became the first health center in the state to use a new device that serves as an alternative to open-heart surgery this week. Cardiologist Timothy ...

Medtronic is pumping up its activation of heart valve disease patients. The company has partnered with an advocacy group for heart valve disease, Heart-Valve-Surgery.com, to create a digital platform ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- One anatomic feature, typically found in women, did not make patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) better suited for either transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or ...

There are three types of bicuspid aortic valves — types 0, 1, and 2. Experts classify these types based on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge. A bicuspid aortic valve is a ...