"As an aside, the Ross procedure, which is my preference in this age group, is the only aortic valve replacement procedure ...

Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from ...

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highlighting its advantages over conventional bioprosthetic valves. One study reported that early mortality rates after the procedure range from 0% to 5.88%, with a cumulative incidence of aortic ...

A study reveals that middle-aged adults fare better with mechanical aortic valves compared to animal tissue-based valves. The research, presented at the Society for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting, ...

Many clinical reports have demonstrated excellent reports with pericardial valves with very low gradient and improved long-term durability compared with porcine bioprosthesis. [9–12] However ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...

CABG plus surgical aortic valve replacement for treatment of coronary disease and aortic stenosis was associated with better 5-year outcomes vs. PCI plus transcatheter aortic valve replacement in ...

aHR 1.12 favoring bioprosthetic valves (95% CI 0.97-1.29) These findings were consistent in sensitivity analyses excluding pure aortic insufficiency, intermediate- or high-risk patients ...

The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages of 40 and 79. They found that in those aged 60 or younger, mechanical ...