Aortic valve repair and replacement continue to grab attention appropriate for the number of people affected, but the heart’s other three valves are finally gaining some respect as med-tech companies ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY -- The newer Navitor looked increasingly viable as a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system, ...

Frame design influences critical parameters such as radial strength, flexibility, fatigue resistance and conformability to ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has transformed the treatment of aortic stenosis.1 A series of strategy trials comparing TAVI with surgical aortic valve replacement established TAVI as ...

Bicuspid anatomy results in earlier valve degeneration, and the mean age of these patients requiring SAVR is roughly 5 years younger than those with tricuspid aortic valves. In the absence of ...

Objective In patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), coronary anatomy is variable. High take-off coronary arteries have been described, but data are scarce, especially when associated with complex ...

Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with procedure-related stroke. Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices may reduce embolization to the cerebral circulation and hence t ...

A recent editorial claimed that “it’s time to act” in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). The expert authors, including eminent cardiologist Eugene Braunwald, MD ...

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