ASTON, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Aortic stenosis is one of the most common and most serious heart valve problems. But many people don't know they have it, and many chalk its symptoms up to "just getting ...

Five-year data from the PARTNER 3 trial showed that among low-risk patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis, outcomes were similar among patients who had undergone transcatheter aortic-valve ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NY—Development of bioprosthetic valve dysfunction (BVD) may contribute to worse outcomes at 5 years after transcatheter or surgical valve replacement in patients with symptomatic severe ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Aortic mechanical valves are associated with better survival than bioprosthetic valves in patients aged 60 years or younger, showed 12-year survival data from a large surgical database.

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 the ...