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

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 ...

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.

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.

Boston Scientific, Inc. BSX has obtained a CE Mark for the ACURATE Prime Aortic Valve System — the newest transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) technology in its structural heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

Source Reference: Lindman BR, El-Sabawi B "SGLT2 inhibition in aortic stenosis: a therapy for the ventricle, the valve, or both?" JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2024.12.025.

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 ...

The device will be used to treat patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are at high or extreme risk for open-heart surgery. This week, a structural heart team composed of interventional ...