The results underscore the need to perform CT imaging when deciding between procedures in patients with aortic stenosis.

The randomized ACCESS-TAVI study led by PD Dr. Tobias Rheude and DZHK-Prof. Michael Joner from the German Heart Center Munich and the German Center for Cardiovascular Research shows that a combined ...

Penn’s School of Medicine is one of 22 institutions nationwide participating in a clinical trial for a procedure that may offer high-risk heart patients a safer alternative to open-heart surgery. The ...

May 2, 2012 (San Francisco, California)— Too many patients who cannot benefit from aortic-valve replacement are being treated with transcatheter valve implants, according to Dr Craig Miller (Stanford ...

A new study shows a 45% reduction in operative mortality in high risk patients requiring aortic valve replacement when Least Invasive Valve techniques are used compared to the conventional approach.

The registry is part of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) of surveys and registries. Today's presentation reveals current usage of the most modern ...

A study has shown that a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery. A study led by researchers at the National Institute for Health ...

NICE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caranx Medical (‘Caranx’), a French medical device company specializing in the development of autonomous robot to democratize access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

Researchers support limiting these surgeries to centers that do the most cases, though true high-volume hospitals remain rare ...