In EARLY TAVR, intervention improved outcomes over waiting in patients with class II or no indications for AVR consideration.

HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually ...

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 ...

Yang noted that SAVR and TAVR on their own just put valves in without any change in annular structure. Surgeons often turn ...

Introduction In non-elderly adults, aortic valve replacement (AVR) with conventional prostheses yield poor long-term outcomes. Recent publications suggest a benefit of the Ross procedure over ...

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

Abstract . Aortic valve replacement with mechanical or biological heart valves is the treatment of choice for aortic valve stenosis when it is symptomatic or with severe aortic stenosis (≤ 0.6 ...

Surgical aortic valve replacement represents the gold standard of treatment in patients with aortic valve stenosis. Often, symptomatic patients have significant comorbidities. In such subsets of ...

Objective To determine the early and long-term outcomes of conventional aortic root (ARR) and valve-sparing root replacement (VSRR) using a standard perioperative and operative approach. Methods We ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement has emerged as a valuable alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic ... at least mild transprosthetic regurgitation, and ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) ... Chu D, Navid F, Dunn‐Lewis C, Sultan I. Midterm outcomes of stented versus Stentless bioprosthetic valves after aortic root replacement. Semin Thorac ...

Overall, there were 15.8 cases of valve thrombosis per 100 patient-years, with 8.5 and 14.0 events per 100 patient-years of clinical and subclinical cases, respectively. This translated to 1.7% of ...