Annual Meeting, investigators presented a late-breaking study focused on surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) following ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—A risk model based on data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (ACSD) ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) is a progressive heart valve disease that leads to the narrowing of the aortic valve opening, restricting blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body.

Kannur Medical College Hospital performs Kerala's first motorised TAVI in the government sector, advancing public cardiac ...

People who underwent a minimally invasive procedure to have their heart's aortic valve replaced had similar health outcomes years after treatment as people who had surgery, Cedars-Sinai investigators ...

NEW YORK, NYU Langone Medical Center this week became the first academic medical center in the United States to implant a newly FDA-approved heart valve for transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Ed Fulcher, 90, a lifelong resident of Morehead City, works every day in his home shop building model boats for sale. About a year ago, Fulcher noticed he couldn’t work in his shop more than 15 ...

Women with moderate-to-severe aortic regurgitation managed without surgery show worse survival than men. Measures of left ...

The success of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is centred around the collaboration between cardiac surgeons and interventional cardiologists. A report from the German Quality Assurance ...

What follows is an outsider's report on the next big phase of cardiology—the percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease. I have little doubt that in 5 to 10 years, transcutaneous valves will be ...

A new study shows a 45% reduction in operative mortality in high risk patients requiring aortic valve replacement when Least Invasive Valve techniques are used compared to the conventional approach.