The Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement, which involves a pulmonary valve autograft, achieved low rates of ...

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article mistakenly indicated that Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute performed almost as many TAVI explantations as implants in 2023. In fact, the institution ...

Two new studies are emphasizing the importance of appropriately choosing between TAVI and surgical aortic valve replacement in patients who have symptomatic severe aortic stenosis, with both ...

CHICAGO -- Dapagliflozin (Farxiga) lowered mortality and heart failure worsening in high-risk older adults getting transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), the DapaTAVI trial showed. In 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 ...

With careful selection, same-day hospital discharge was found to be feasible and safe in around one-fifth of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation in a study presented today at ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has raised concerns about price variations for valves used in keyhole heart procedures. In a late stage assessment on valves used in ...

Valvular heart disease affects about 25 million people in China and 100 million worldwide every year. Nearly 50% suffer from conditions in aortic valve — the main outflow valve from the heart. Without ...

Mizoram achieved a major milestone in advanced cardiac care after doctors at a private hospital here successfully carried out the state''s first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), a ...