No one was more surprised than Dr. Rick Dearman when he was diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, also known as heart valve failure. As a heart surgeon, he’d treated hundreds of people ...

Medicare limits access to lifesaving treatments for common illnesses, including a type of heart valve disease affecting 2.5 ...

Google searches for transcatheter aortic valve replacement surged among laypersons when pivotal trials were published, ...

In the United States, cardiovascular health is especially important. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with aortic stenosis ...

There are two options to consider if you need to have your aortic valve replaced.

Before blood gets pumped out of the heart to circulate through the body, it must pass through the aortic valve. If the aortic valve becomes narrowed or hardened, the condition known as aortic stenosis ...

PHOENIX -- End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients often had rapid deterioration of their transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) prostheses, although reintervention wasn't common, a ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure to replace your aortic valve. The aortic valve controls blood flow from your heart to your aorta, the main artery that ...

For patients with failed bioprosthetic surgical valves, the choice of valve-in-valve (ViV) transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) carried upfront advantages, but was ultimately associated with ...

Delirium is more common in patients undergoing surgical rather than transcatheter aortic valve replacement (SAVR, TAVR) but predicted worse in-hospital outcomes after both procedures, a new study ...

Before your blood gets pumped out of your heart to circulate through the body, it must pass through the aortic valve. If the aortic valve becomes narrowed or hardened, the condition known as aortic ...