Mechanical aortic heart valves ... surgical techniques and the desire to avoid long term anticoagulation. However, uncertainty exists on the long-term outcome data associated with biological aortic ...

INR >1.5 not due to reversible cause, left ventricular (LV) thrombus, severe mitral or tricuspid regurgitation, mechanical aortic valve, heart constriction device, aortic stenosis/insufficiency.

The 8-year data may hold value for TAVI—the newest Sapien valve uses the same tissue—but many other variables differ.

A device in clinical development appears to be far safer and more effective than the TAVI devices currently being used ...

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 ...

The two companies have entered into a strategic partnership to exclusively commercialize Braile’s Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) technology across Europe, India, and other ...

The aortic valve is a door that separates the heart from the aorta, the largest artery that carries blood to different organs of our body. As we grow older, the valve becomes dysfunctional.

Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with procedure-related stroke. Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices may reduce embolization to the cerebral circulation and hence ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

For firm seating of the valve inside the native aortic annulus and to reduce the ... 55 mm for the 29-mm valve), mechanical properties of the stent material vary: the lower inflow segment of ...