Percutaneous aortic valve replacement is becoming a reality and brings new hope for a number of patients who cannot currently be treated with traditional surgical techniques. Whereas surgical valve ...

Irvine, CA - Just three months after the launch of the first US clinical feasibility trial of Edwards Lifesciences' (Irvine, CA) percutaneous aortic valve, the company has announced that the study is ...

Rouen, France - The case history of the first-ever percutaneously implanted heart valve (PHV) in a human details a very sick patient who showed no recurring heart failure but who died from serious ...

(May 10, 2007—ORLANDO, FL) -- Catheter techniques are expanding into new territory, successfully aiding in the replacement of narrowed, calcified aortic valves in patients too sick to withstand ...

Three new studies evaluate a rapidly advancing field within interventional cardiology: percutaneous procedures to repair and replace defective heart valves. Percutaneous valve procedures, which are ...

A new study shows a 45% reduction in operative mortality in high risk patients requiring aortic valve replacement when Least Invasive Valve techniques are used compared to the conventional approach.

Surgical valve replacement is currently the only effective treatment for patients with aortic stenosis. Many patients are, however, unsuitable for surgery because of end-stage disease, older age and ...

Rochester, N.Y. — Rochester Regional Health is celebrating a milestone. It has completed its 1,000th trans-catheter aortic valve replacement, also known as TAV-ER. The non-surgical procedure replaces ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — The Structural Heart Team at Wheeling Hospital recently performed its 100th Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedure since the program began. During the TAVR procedure, ...

Ed Fulcher, 90, a lifelong resident of Morehead City, works every day in his home shop building model boats for sale. About a year ago, Fulcher noticed he couldn’t work in his shop more than 15 ...

Large-bore devices and longer time on support each up the risk. A study author calls for awareness, not alarm.

An initial foray into the ‘final frontier’ of percutaneous valve procedures—tricuspid valve replacement—suggests that a currently available pulmonary valve can feasibly be implanted in the tricuspid ...