The risks of in-hospital complications and mortality at 30 days were significantly higher in patients with severe aortic ...

ROUEN, FRANCE — Congestive heart failure (CHF) brought one in four patients back to the hospital within a year of transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) for severe aortic stenosis, a new study ...

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 ...

TAVI is a safe alternative to redo cardiac surgery for failing bioprosthetic valves, according to new research. The findings suggest that transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a treatment ...

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) gives broadly comparable results to conventional open surgery, with equal efficacy, faster recovery time and improved quality of life at one year, ...

German researchers report success with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis-a special form of aortic stenosis that is difficult to ...

CHICAGO -- Non-cardiac co-morbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease and frailty are the main predictors of late mortality after transcatheter aortic valve ...

While many people fear a cancer diagnosis above all else, clinical data reveals that symptomatic aortic stenosis, a severe ...

Aortic stenosis, a common yet often overlooked heart condition in seniors, can cause symptoms like breathlessness, dizziness, ...

The aortic valve is normally tricuspid or trileaflet. When two of the cusps are fused together, the valve becomes functionally “bicuspid.” Most commonly, the right and left coronary cusps are fused ...