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 ...

The procedure takes eight seconds and is done within a 30-second window. The results are “dramatic.” TAVR, a relatively new procedure to replace the aortic valve in patients unable to undergo open ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients developing AFib after TAVR are at higher risk of death, stroke and heart attack compared to patients who already had AFib prior to the procedure, according to a new study. Patients developing ...

Patients who suffer a stroke during hospitalization for infective endocarditis (IE) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have a dismal prognosis, with more than half dying during the ...