Medscape

How Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Is Changing the Lives of Cardiac Patients

While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...
MedPage Today

60 or Younger? A 'Wake Up Call' for Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement

LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve may start to have an advantage, ...
TCTMD

EVOLVED: Early AVR Fails to Help Asymptomatic AS Patients With Fibrosis

WASHINGTON, DC—An early aortic valve replacement (AVR) strategy with either TAVI or surgery fails to lower the risk of all-cause mortality or unplanned aortic stenosis-related hospitalizations in ...
News Medical

Trilogy valve demonstrates safety and effectiveness in treating aortic regurgitation

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 trial's ...
Healio

FDA approves first TAVR platform to treat severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transcatheter aortic valve replacement platform was approved for severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis. Edwards ...