Q: I have aortic stenosis and my valve will need to be replaced soon. What are my options? A: Aortic stenosis happens when the aortic valve becomes thick, stiff and clogged with calcium deposits, ...

Penn’s School of Medicine is one of 22 institutions nationwide participating in a clinical trial for a procedure that may offer high-risk heart patients a safer alternative to open-heart surgery. The ...

The results underscore the need to perform CT imaging when deciding between procedures in patients with aortic stenosis.

The randomized ACCESS-TAVI study led by PD Dr. Tobias Rheude and DZHK-Prof. Michael Joner from the German Heart Center Munich and the German Center for Cardiovascular Research shows that a combined ...

What follows is an outsider's report on the next big phase of cardiology—the percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease. I have little doubt that in 5 to 10 years, transcutaneous valves will be ...

May 2, 2012 (San Francisco, California)— Too many patients who cannot benefit from aortic-valve replacement are being treated with transcatheter valve implants, according to Dr Craig Miller (Stanford ...

NICE, France, July 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caranx Medical ("Caranx"), a French medical device company specializing in the development of an autonomous robot to democratize access to Transcatheter ...

Researchers support limiting these surgeries to centers that do the most cases, though true high-volume hospitals remain rare ...