Saint Alphonsus in Boise earned a three-star TAVR ranking from STS and ACC, placing it among the nation’s top heart programs ...

This paper summarizes the implications of recent TAVR program expansion, supports the 2019 multisociety expert consensus recommendation of Level 1 and Level 2 valve centers, and defines the important ...

Four cardiology societies issued a joint statement for requirements for centers with existing or new transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) programs, which updates a 2012 statement. The new ...

Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health’s new transcatheter aortic valve replacement program helped one of its first patients in September. The TAVR program is led by Dr. Chittoor Sai Sudhakar, chief of ...

The Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) took a tepid step toward keeping and/or possibly discarding procedural volume requirements for new and continuing ...

Among patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement, increased frailty was independently associated with worse outcomes, including all-cause death, whereas cancer history did not ...

The Lee Health Heart Institute recently hit a significant milestone—the team has performed more than 2,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures! The expert team of interventional ...

Morristown Medical Center's Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute's structural heart program reached a significant milestone of performing over 4,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures ...

BOSTON -- Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) again came up empty in preventing strokes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) despite safely capturing embolic material dislodged during the ...

Each February during American Heart Month, there’s an increased focus on heart disease – the leading cause of death in the U.S. But the focus is often limited to the most common form, coronary heart ...