May 2, 2012 (San Francisco, California)— Too many patients who cannot benefit from aortic-valve replacement are being treated with transcatheter valve implants, according to Dr Craig Miller (Stanford ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Permanent pacemaker implantation occurs at a higher rate after balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve procedures (TAVI) compared with surgery, often occurring early and as a ...

The randomized ACCESS-TAVI study led by PD Dr. Tobias Rheude and DZHK-Prof. Michael Joner from the German Heart Center Munich and the German Center for Cardiovascular Research shows that a combined ...

Penn’s School of Medicine is one of 22 institutions nationwide participating in a clinical trial for a procedure that may offer high-risk heart patients a safer alternative to open-heart surgery. The ...

A new study shows a 45% reduction in operative mortality in high risk patients requiring aortic valve replacement when Least Invasive Valve techniques are used compared to the conventional approach.

A study has shown that a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery. A study led by researchers at the National Institute for Health ...

The registry is part of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) of surveys and registries. Today's presentation reveals current usage of the most modern ...

NICE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caranx Medical (‘Caranx’), a French medical device company specializing in the development of autonomous robot to democratize access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

A study led by researchers at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre has shown that a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is ...