The implantation of the new valve is done without the need to open the heart completely, thereby drastically reducing the ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - United Regional Health Care System is celebrating a major milestone in cardiovascular care as ...

Aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the aortic valve, is one of the most common and severe structural issues, particularly in ...

With advanced care that beats national and state averages, doctors like Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Andre Desire say that ...

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis.

Roger Black won a bronze and two silver medals across the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, but recently had to undergo open-heart ...

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Aortic valve stenosis (AVS ... quality of life before the condition becomes severe enough to require surgery or a valve replacement intervention. "This research marks a major breakthrough in ...

Miller notes that the impact extends beyond simply delaying surgery ... of native aortic valve calcification in the clinical trial, offers the potential for a once-in-a-lifetime procedure if ...

Forty-four percent of rural Medicare patients must drive an hour or more for surgery, a recent analysis in JAMA finds. The study shows that patients in rural areas typically drive 55 minutes to a ...

In asymptomatic patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis ... bypass graft surgery. [20,21,22,23,24] The mortality is uniformly higher when AVR is done as an emergent procedure; this suggests ...