Use of Anticoagulant Drug After Aortic Valve Replacement Lowers Mortality Risk Dec. 7, 2023 — Patients who received the anticoagulant drug warfarin after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement ...

If you have heart valve replacement surgery, you will be prescribed a blood thinner (a.k.a. an anticoagulant) upon discharge from the hospital. Long-term blood thinner medication guidelines differ ...

Valve thrombosis can occur in mechanical prosthetic valves and is increasingly recognised in transcatheter and surgically implanted bioprosthetic valves. The risk of thrombosis of mechanical valves is ...

Kennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Institutional Enhancement Award to advance his study on bicuspid ...

Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.

In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), ...

I told him it was too soon, that we did not even have satisfactory artificial valves, and that simple vascular ... Hufnagel developed such a device to palliate aortic regurgitation in the form ...

A complicated, rare heart surgery pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.

Pros of Artificial Valve Replacement Mechanical heart valves are less likely to require additional surgery to replace in the future than biological prosthetic (bioprosthetic) valves. Very strong. A ...