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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TAVR vs Surgery in Intermediate-Risk Patients: Clues From OBSERVANT. Shelley Wood. September 13, 2014. WASHINGTON, DC — New European registry data on transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR ...

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 ...

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.

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

At 30 days, patients who underwent TAVR had a mean change in the 6-minute walk test of 35.4 m, compared with a loss of 14.4 m in the surgical arm (P < 0.0001). At 1 and 2 years, the mean change in ...

Pat Marble noticed that she could no longer sing or whistle. It turned out Marble's aortic valve -- which brings blood from the heart to the body -- was wearing out, a serious condition called ...

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 ...

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 ...