CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Morton Plant Hospital is the first hospital in the Tampa Bay area to perform Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) by the transapical approach. Transapical TAVR is the ...

VANCOUVER — Implanting another valve within a dysfunctional mitral prosthesis via a transapical approach has favorable midterm clinical outcomes, with more than 90% of patients alive after a median ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with left ventricular dysfunction, transapical transcatheter aortic valve replacement conferred ...

November 10, 2011 (San Francisco) — Quality-of-life (QoL) data from the PARTNER A trial should prompt a "rethink" of how many transcatheter aortic-valve implantations (TAVI) are performed via the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced the first patient implant of its 23 mm Portico™ Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve ...

A modified approach to transapical aortic valve replacement that facilitates precise prosthesis positioning results in fewer and milder instances of paravalvular regurgitation, similar to surgery, ...

Barcelona, Spain, 30 August: "Today, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) represents an effective therapeutic alternative to conventional aortic valve replacement for patients who are at ...

Aortic stenosis is a common heart disease that results in a fixed obstruction of the left ventricle and presents with angina, syncope, congestive heart failure or sudden death. About 3% of the general ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has evolved as a viable therapeutic option for high-risk, elderly patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis in select cardiac centers with experience of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Among patients who underwent transcatheter valve-in-valve repair of a failed surgical mitral ...

Select patients age 90 years and older with aortic stenosis (AS) can benefit from a relatively new, minimally invasive surgery for aortic valve replacement, according to an article in the September ...

"Today, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) represents an effective therapeutic alternative to conventional aortic valve replacement for patients who are at high risk or with ...