Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . TAVR was tied to similar long-term mortality vs. surgical AVR for severe aortic stenosis. But use of ...

In the United States, cardiovascular health is especially important. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with aortic stenosis ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The early experience of patients needing cardiac surgery after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has surgeons raising the alarm about the excess risks of these challenging ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—When it comes to treating mitral valve disease, several leaders of the field at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) annual meeting urged their peers to take up transcatheter ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, is a minimally invasive heart procedure that replaces a thickened aortic valve that can't fully open (aortic stenosis). The procedure restores proper ...

TCT 2019 COAPT: MitraClip Adds Years of Life, but at a Steep Price Cumulative 2-year costs were higher with the device than medical therapy but, overall, the cost-effectiveness is comparable with ...

SANTA BARBARA—The Cottage Heart & Vascular Center team at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) recently performed its 1,000th transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive ...

Among a series of 2,500 patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) treated with the MitraClip (Abbott) in the United States, nearly two-thirds had preexisting CAD, and this was associated with an ...

Springfield, Ore.-based PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend has become the first hospital in the state to receive the American College of Cardiology’s Certified Transcather Valve ...