Study establishes new risk model for surgery after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Annual Meeting, investigators presented a late-breaking study focused on surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) following ...
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Study reveals challenges in valve durability after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

A new study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, a journal from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, has identified early hemodynamic valve deterioration (HVD) in more than 6% of patients just ...
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Early signs of valve failure one year after transcatheter aortic valve implantation identified

A new study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, has identified early hemodynamic valve deterioration (HVD) in more than 6% of patients just one year after undergoing transcatheter aortic ...
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How Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Is Changing the Lives of Cardiac Patients

While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...

Edwards’ request for broader TAVR Medicare coverage gets pushback

Several medical societies supported extending Medicare coverage for TAVR to patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis, but ...
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Trinity Health System celebrates 200th successful aortic valve replacement

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio — Just a few years ago, Trinity Health System introduced a minimally invasive procedure called the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedure. RELATED: Trinity Health ...