Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has developed a globally inclusive standard dataset of ...

The tricuspid valve is anatomically complex. It’s often called the “forgotten valve” because of its position in the back of ...

Aortic stenosis is fairly uncommon among young people, though not absent. In younger folks, the disease is typically caused by a congenital heart condition. As we age, calcium deposits can build up ...

ACURATE neo2 TAVI achieves high success in severe bicuspid aortic stenosis, demonstrating strong 30-day safety and efficacy.

Tyler Scarborough, an 8-year-old boy with congenital heart disease, is the focus of a local military family's efforts to ...

For some patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib, AF) and valvular heart disease (VHD), direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) appeared to offer better prevention of stroke and thromboembolic events ...

The Medicare data contradict results from the TCW randomized trial but better represent real-world practice, say authors.

2 Centre National de Référence pour le syndrome de Marfan et apparentés, Hôpital Bichat, AP-HP, Paris, France Background Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is related to aortic dilatation, but patterns/rates ...

As cavitation bubbles collapse, they produce shock waves inducing mechanical softening of the targeted calcified valve leaflet. Therapeutic dose was estimated as the mean acoustic focal energy (J/mm2) ...

The risk of thrombosis of mechanical valves is higher in the mitral position compared with aortic position and in older generation ... and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) are key diagnostic ...