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 ...

Introduction: Stentless aortic valves have been developed to overcome the obstructive limitations associated with stented bioprostheses. The Freedom Solo (FS) bovine pericardial valve is a third ...

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.

Abstract. Aims: The authors investigated the additive prognostic value of the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) to Euroscore in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) ...

Sutureless aortic valves proved to have larger EOAs for any given size compared to stented bioprostheses and to provide good hemodynamic performances, comparable to stentless valves. In addition, ...