At Sanford Health in Bismarck, doctors have now performed 500 transcatheter aortic valve replacements, known as TAVR.

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) did not have a higher rate of death at one year compared with those who had their heart valve replaced via open-heart surgery ...

ATLANTA — In a real-world population of patients with severe aortic stenosis at low or intermediate surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement was noninferior to surgery for death and ...

TAVR, which involves threading a replacement valve through a catheter in the groin or chest, is at least as safe and effective as surgery in these patients; these results echo what was found in an ...

Self-expanding TAVR widens advantage over surgery at two years Date: March 16, 2015 Source: American College of Cardiology Summary: Two-year data show a continued survival advantage for self ...

JANESVILLE -- Mercyhealth has successfully performed its 300th TAVR procedure, the health system said in a release. A transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure (TAVR) is a minimally invasive ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement was linked with similar long-term outcomes to surgery, according to two ...

A minimally invasive procedure gives one patient a second chance — and signals major strides in cardiovascular care.

Researchers say these results suggest TAVR, which involves threading a replacement valve through a catheter in the groin or chest, is at least as safe and effective as surgery in these patients.

Nationwide numbers show a "very obvious increase" in post-TAVR surgeries recorded in the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery database from 2012 through March 2023 -- over 5,400 affected individuals during ...

Cumulative costs (index hospitalization plus costs associated with readmissions within 30 days) were $51,025 for surgery versus $46,756 in the matched endovascular TAVR group (P = 0.03) and $59,575 ...

For the first time in India, doctors at Rajasthan Hospital, Jaipur have successfully replaced a heart valve through the ...