On July 11, 2024, Affluent Medical reached a major milestone with the signature of several agreements with Edwards Lifesciences, a global MedTech player, recognizing the relevance and potential of the ...

Two state-of-the-art new technologies for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacements is expanding advanced heart care with ...

Ferenc Jakab underwent groundbreaking robotic heart surgery, which offered a faster recovery and less trauma. But how often ...

(A video showing the Carillon implantation procedure is at the end of this post.) A transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) clip implantation, for comparison, takes a few hours in the cath lab and ...

The Highlife transcatheter mitral valve replacement system. [Image from the company’s website] HighLife announced that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its trans-septal mitral ...

CHICAGO, IL—Patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are watched until symptoms develop before undergoing TAVI are a greater risk of dying, being hospitalized for heart failure (HF), or ...

Perspective from Gilbert H.L. Tang, MD, MSc, MBA CHICAGO — The first trial to evaluate use of an SGLT2 inhibitor in people undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement showed benefit with ...

This study aimed to investigate the clinical impact of transcatheter edge‐to‐edge repair in patients with CS ... The MitraClip was then adjusted perpendicular to the mitral valve and advanced into the ...

Current guidelines recommend surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis and unfavorable iliofemoral access. Transcarotid transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Dr. Poppas: I'm Athena Pappas for CVN. I'm with Dr. Peter Block and we're talking about various approaches to percutaneous mitral valve repair. Peter, there are various types of valve pathology ...

In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased mortality and morbidity and this is also the case in patients in whom AF persists postoperatively.

Surgery is not recommended for the correction of secondary MR outside coronary artery bypass grafting. Percutaneous mitral valve repair (PMVR) with MitraClip implantation has recently evolved as a new ...