A trend toward higher mortality in women with PPM who received a self-expanding valves deserves more scrutiny, though.

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Complications weren’t more common when leads were extracted. Yet there’s also the option of “jailing” leads instead.

PREGNANCY in women with prosthetic heart valves carries significant risks, with mechanical valves linked to higher ...

Geriatrics and Aging. 2006;9(10):691-696. © 2006 1453987 Ontario, Ltd. Cite this: Prosthetic Heart Valves, Part I: Identification and Potential Complications ...

Registry study of 600-plus pregnancies represents the largest cohort of pregnant women with a prosthetic heart valve. However scant, the available data on pregnant women with prosthetic valves did ...

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Image credit: Shutterstock/Steve Cukrov. Edwards Lifesciences has received CE marking for its transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement system, setting up market rivalry with Abbott. Edwards ...

Prosthetic heart valves (PHVs) are used to replace diseased native valves among patients with valvular stenosis, incompetence, or both. This paper reviews a number of contemporary prosthetic heart ...