There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better ...

Permanent pacemaker rates were nearly 18% at 30 days but came down as sites gained experience with the new device.

Aortic stenosis is a heart valve disease that some people don't realize they have. So what is it, how is it treated?

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 ...

Aortic regurgitation means one of your heart’s valves is leaky. Learn what can cause it, the symptoms, and how to treat it.

At 17, Bill D'Andrea of Plymouth Meeting had open heart surgery for the faulty aortic valve he was born with. Instead of replacing it, the surgeon repaired it.

Thubrikar Aortic Valve, Inc. is a privately held medical device company based near Philadelphia, PA, that has developed a next-generation transcatheter aortic valve, the Optimum TAV, and delivery ...

The mean aortic-valve gradients, shown in Panel A, and the mean aortic-valve areas, shown in Panel B, were assessed by an echocardiography core laboratory. 𝙸 bars indicate standard deviations.

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had an overall mortality rate of just 8.1% at one year, well below the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’ve had a leaky aortic valve for approximately six years. I recently had an echocardiogram using Doppler. The last test I received was three years ago, which came back with a ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced the FDA approved its transcatheter aortic valve replacement platform for treatment of severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis, the first in this patient population ...

In that surgery, called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, cardiologists insert a replacement valve through a patient’s groin and thread it all the way to the heart.