Just a few years ago, treating critical aortic stenosis required surgery. Now, there’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement, which allows for treatment of the heart’s blocked valve without actual ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Bonnie Faulk works at Walmart, but her quality of life began going down hill as she got older. "I couldn't breath," Faulk said. Diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis, Faulk needed ...

A hybrid procedure combining off-pump CABG and transaortic TAVR appears feasible as a treatment approach for select patients with complex coronary disease and severe aortic stenosis, a small case ...

POCATELLO — The Heart and Vascular center at Portneuf Medical Center recently marked its 400th transaortic valve replacement procedure. This procedure helps treat aortic stenosis, a valve disease that ...

Provides interventional cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, and heart teams with practical guidance for selecting patients and performing alternative access transaortic valve replacement (TAVR) ...

A study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions found that 30-day readmission rates for transaortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures and traditional surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) ...

WASHINGTON, DC — For patients who need a new aortic valve but who are poor candidates for either surgery or transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) through femoral-artery access, a transcaval ...

In a big win for Medtronic ($MDT), the FDA expanded the indication of the company's transaortic valve replacement device permission to include replacement of patients ...

Most doctors had written off Rosalyn Davenport, 87. Then she found a place willing to learn a cutting-edge technique to save her life. “I could’ve died instantly if somebody didn’t know what they were ...

LAS VEGAS — Use of transcaval access to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the CoreValve self-expanding system was successful in the first three patients in which it was attempted, ...

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Medtronic plc reported positive interim results on the first 171 patients implanted with Evolut transaortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices in its OPTIMIZE PRO clinical trial. The postmarket, ...