For patients with symptomatic aortic regurgitation at high surgical risk, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement system exceeded safety and performance goals, according to results of the ALIGN-AR ...

A poop color chart can help narrow the possible causes based on colors ... by any new or unusual symptoms like severe pain or cramping. Stool color can mean many different things, from red to black ...

Data shows, versus surgery, the Evolut™ transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR ... larger effective orifice areas (EOA) and lower mean gradients in the TAVR vs. surgical arms "At five ...

Total number of enrollees: 500 patients Duration of follow-up: 2 years Mean patient ... 1.6% valve embolization, and 0.8% 30-day disabling stroke. Moreover, favorable valve performance was evident by ...

HealthDay News — In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement ... the transplant could mean the end of ...

resulting in a mixed-gradients distributed filtered reference least mean square (MGDFxLMS) algorithm. The performance investigation demonstrates that the proposed approach performs well with the ...

and low mean gradients. Most notably, this is the only transcatheter valve to show zero prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) in small annuli patients—an achievement that sets a new standard in TAVR.

Patients with paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient severe aortic stenosis exhibit low transvalvular flow rate (Q), while maintaining preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Severe mitral ... valve ...

Moreover, in our center's experience, neither arrhythmia burden, nor contractility have worsened in the vast majority of patients: we note a clinically insignificant mean ... gradient of 90 mmHg with ...