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Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002. [33] There have ...

The device will be used to treat patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are at high or extreme risk for ...

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This procedure may also be recommended for patients who have aortic valve disease or other conditions ... experience improved quality of life after the surgery. Recovery from a beveled aortic hemiarch ...

Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

For patients with failed bioprosthetic surgical valves, the choice of valve-in-valve (ViV) transcatheter aortic valve ...

Researchers saw some differences between valve types; while provocative, these data need confirmation, observers say.

"This study represents the largest scale analysis so far available comparing longer-term percutaneous devices for aortic valve replacement versus surgery," said study co-author Eliano Pio Navarese ...

From 2015 to 2020, the number of patients opting for valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (ViV-TAVR) over ...

In elderly patients, however, there is often a reluctance to recommend aortic valve replacement (AVR ... the indication for AVR were referred for surgery. Compared to younger groups, elderly ...

the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, have performed a study of patients who underwent bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement in Sweden between 2003 and 2018. The study is published in ...