The authors found an association between Medicare’s wage index adjustment and the differential use of labor-intensive surgical procedures and medical device–intensive minimally invasive clinical ...

There are two options to consider if you need to have your aortic valve replaced.

New research found that public interest in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) increased substantially over the ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was found to bring no increased risks and was associated with substantial decreased rates of death or stroke at one year in low-risk patients, compared ...

PARIS -- For patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and concomitant obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), a percutaneous combined intervention worked surprisingly well relative to surgery, the ...

Valve-in-valve (ViV) transcatheter procedures for a failed aortic bioprosthesis are associated with a lower risk of in-hospital mortality compared with a repeat surgical aortic valve replacement, but ...

Not only is TAVI bringing aortic valve replacement (AVR) to a wider range of US patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, but it has also yielded better outcomes over time, according to an ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has revolutionized the treatment of aortic valve stenosis. With proven safety and efficacy, TAVR has become a standard therapeutic alternative to surgical ...

Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet has successfully performed a highly complex and rare TAVR-in-TAVR-in-SAVR procedure with bioprosthetic valve fracture on a 78-year-old patient, marking one of the first such ...

Even as the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) grapples with the question of volume requirements for centers performing surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacements (AVRs), a ...

Better to intervene early with a new valve in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) who are asymptomatic, even during exercise, than to wait for the disease to progress and symptoms to emerge ...