Aortic stenosis is a heart valve disease that some people don't realize they have. So what is it, how is it treated?

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. Your doctor uses that tube ...

In aortic valve replacement a surgeon removes the damaged valve and replaces it. The replacement might be a mechanical valve or one made from cow, pig or human heart tissue.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement is a minimally invasive procedure replacing a diseased aortic valve via a catheter, ideal for high-risk patients, improving quality of life.

The advent of ATTR-specific drugs, though pricey, is enabling better survival in these overlapping diseases, researchers say.

It’s called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR. It’s a little like balloon valvuloplasty because it uses a catheter threaded into an artery to your heart.

Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002.

Speaking about the working of robotic aortic valve replacement, Dr Sathyaki Nambala, Chief Cardiac Surgeon at Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road said, “This breakthrough procedure conducted by ...

This procedure may also be recommended for patients who have aortic valve disease or other conditions that affect the aortic arch. The main benefit of a beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is that it ...

This is called trans-catheter aortic valve implantation, TAVI, or replacement TAVR. “In this procedure, we puncture the artery of the leg at the groin with a needle, and through that, we thread ...

WASHINGTON — Among patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and myocardial fibrosis, transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement did not improve outcomes compared with guideline ...