CABG plus surgical aortic valve replacement for treatment of coronary disease and aortic stenosis was associated with better 5-year outcomes vs. PCI plus transcatheter aortic valve replacement in ...

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S. researchers ...

A study reveals that middle-aged adults fare better with mechanical aortic valves compared to animal tissue-based valves. The research, presented at the Society for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting, ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

TAVIPILOT Soft is said to be a ‘world-first’ provision for real-time surgical guidance during TAVI and TAVR procedures.

A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...

A 94-year-old great-grandmother from South Mumbai underwent a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) to treat her breathlessness caused by aort ...

Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark (N.S.B.M., J.S.D., M.A., A.H., R.C.-S., J.E.M., K.A.Ø., M.-A.C.). Research center, Institut ...

What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...

THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...