CEO Christian Mazzi said the minimally invasive surgical technique could provide better outcomes for patients than ...

With one type of operation, called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), you get a thin tube that runs through a small opening in your leg and up to your heart.

So we know exactly what size valve we would use," notes Dr. Fiss. Around 95% of TAVR procedures at Temple are under sedation, not general anesthesia, and only require one night in the hospital.

The progression of aortic stenosis goes from mild, where we see just mild calcification in the valves not really that tight, to moderate. It's tightening a bit. It's thickening more.

Morgantown-based West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute is offering robotic procedures for aortic stenosis, a common and potentially fatal heart valve disease, providing patients with ...

A CT scan of a 64-year-old patient with heart failure showing calcification of the aortic valve, bright white, in center, which can lead to aortic valve stenosis. Zephyr/Science Source ...

Editorial Aortic Stenosis — Listen to the Patient, Look at the Valve Author: Catherine M. Otto, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published August 31, 2000 N Engl J Med 2000;343: 652 - 654 ...

Aortic stenosis is a nasty disease. The main valve regulating blood flow out of the heart gets stiff, leathery and constricted. Within two years of the first symptoms, half the people with the ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foldax®, Inc. today announced completion of enrollment in the U.S. early feasibility study of the TRIA™ surgical aortic heart valve. The TRIA valve reimagines ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has once again approved a third transcatheter aortic valve for the US market, giving the green light to the self-expanding Portico with FlexNav TAVI system for the ...