A normal aortic valve (left) versus a defective aortic valve (right) and their different sound signals (purple). The sound data was used to generate graphs at the bottom corners, which differ ...

Researchers followed 187 patients who received a new valve by undergoing a transcatheter procedure or open-heart surgery to receive a new valve. All patients in the study had high-resolution ...

MiRus announced new early feasibility study results supporting the use of its Siegel transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Patients received a new treatment for heart valve disease, which did not require riskier open-heart surgery or travel to London. Five people from Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Peterborough and ...

Transcatheter Laceration of Aortic Leaflets to Prevent Coronary Obstruction During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions , 2018; 11 (7): 677 DOI: 10.1016/j ...

Researchers from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford have found that while having high cholesterol levels does not influence your risk of aortic or mitral valve ...

DUBLIN and CHICAGO - April 3, 2016 - Medtronic plc (MDT) today announced new data from the High Risk Study of the CoreValve U.S. Pivotal Trial that show superior clinical outcomes for ...

The prevalence of aortic valve stenosis (AS) has been reported to be 0.4% in the general population and as high as 2.8% in people above the age of 75 years. It is also estimated that more than 10% ...

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty was performed preprocedurally in most patients (92.5%), and 32.5% received it after TAVI. About one-third of patients each received the 25-, 27-, and 29-mm valves. Just ...