Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif., has begun offering transcatheter aortic valve replacements, scvnews.com reported Aug. 3. TAVR is a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart ...

NEW ORLEANS — In this video exclusive, Fenton McCarthy, MD, from the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how outcomes from TAVR may differ based on site of access. “The important clinical questions ...

Chicago — In this video, Michael Reardon, MD, specialist in cardiac surgery from the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, discusses a study presented at the American College of ...

PARIS -- The early commercial experience with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) for severe aortic regurgitation appeared promising, though device size issues and conduction ...

In the past, aortic valve surgery required patients to endure an open heart procedure that carried serious risks...especially for the elderly. But today there’s an alternative. It’s called ...

Two new studies of patients undergoing balloon-expandable TAVR suggest that leaflet thickening is relatively common but often inconsequential and that the durability of the procedure out to 5 years is ...

ERLANGEN, Germany — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has issued a consensus statement on the use of CT imaging before transcatheter aortic-valve implantation ...

Among patients undergoing TAVR for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who do not require anticoagulation, aspirin monotherapy seems to be a better antithrombotic approach than dual antiplatelet ...