The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic root surgery, with or without ...

Aortic valve replacement gives you a new aortic heart valve ... The wire will stay in your chest. The incision will leave a scar that may fade with time. You will stay in the hospital for 3 to 8 days ...

This scar tissue may narrow the aortic valve, but it can also create ... If you have severe aortic stenosis, you may need surgery to repair or replace the valve.

For patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, transcatheter aortic valve replacement was superior to clinical ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open-heart surgery. It is also called catheter-based or percutaneous (through the skin) aortic valve replacement. While ...

Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002. [33] There have ...

[11,12] Surgical valve replacement essentially cures patients -- restoring an almost normal life expectancy. In elderly patients, however, there is often a reluctance to recommend aortic valve ...

after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is associated with a significantly lower incidence of six-month mortality and major bleeding risk compared to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). The ...

Frye Regional Medical Center, a Duke LifePoint facility and Duke Health affiliate in Heart in Hickory, has successfully ...

The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are ...