There was a time not long ago when Barletta Hansen's days of good health looked numbered because of something she shared with her mother: a leaky heart valve. "Our cardiologist said it's very unusual ...
University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...
Mick Jagger’s recent heart surgery has spotlighted a medical procedure that is increasingly being touted as a less invasive alternative for patients suffering from heart-valve disease. Billboard ...
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is used to replace a critically narrowed aortic valve, the valve between the heart and the main artery in the body. TAVR patients' narrowed aortic valves ...
The Ross procedure, which can be used to treat young people with severe aortic valve disease, has seen wide swings in popularity over the years, but now, with consistent data on long-term survival and ...
MINNEAPOLIS - Medtronic, Inc. today announced it has received Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for valve-in-valve (VIV) procedures using the CoreValve® and CoreValve® Evolut(TM) transcatheter aortic ...
Clinicians at Piedmont Heart Institute at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital performed the first HighLife Trans-septal Mitral Valve Replacement in the United States on July 13, as part of an early feasibility ...
When Medicare in 2011 agreed to pay for a procedure to replace leaky heart valves by snaking a replacement through blood vessels, the goal was to offer relief to the tens of thousands of patients too ...
In the first multicenter trial of its kind, Yale researchers tested a new device that lowers the risk of stroke and cognitive decline in patients undergoing heart-valve replacement. The preliminary ...
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