There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better understand the development of this common disease, researchers from Bochum ...

RATES of permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) exceed 20% in patients with aortic regurgitation (AR). A new retrospective ...

Aortic regurgitation means one of your heart’s valves is leaky. Learn what can cause it, the symptoms, and how to treat it.

Thubrikar Aortic Valve, Inc. is a privately held medical device company on a mission to revolutionize the treatment of Aortic Stenosis by bringing to the hands of physicians, and their patients, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 'Wake Up Call' for Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement — Surgeons warn against tissue valves for younger patients by Nicole Lou, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 26, 2025 • 3 min read ...

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.

Edwards Lifesciences announced the FDA approved its transcatheter aortic valve replacement platform for treatment of severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis, the first in this patient population ...

Our secondary outcome variable, aortic valve area, changes much more slowly over timeWhile our study wasn’t statistically powered to detect a change in valve area, we did observe a tendency for ...

You have four of them - called pulmonary, tricuspid, mitral and aortic valves. The aortic valve controls the flow of blood out from the heart to the rest of the body.

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 ...