The follow-up brought little surprise, with investigators pleased the risk of death/disabling stroke remained on par with ...

The TAVI procedure uses a catheter, which is a thin, flexible tube introduced through a small incision, usually in the groin. The catheter is guided to the heart using X-ray imaging techniques ...

With regional differences in which name is used for the aortic fix, some say unity is needed. Others can live with both.

Patients with heart failure who took dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor, after undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were significantly less likely ...

TAVR stands for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. The heart has four valves that makes sure the blood goes in the right direction. Over time, the valves start to wear out, b ...

Patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis undergoing CoreValve or Evolut TAVI have better 5-year bioprosthetic valve ...

This procedure is known as Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). Since then, many studies have been conducted across all risk categories ...

In our center, most transarterial TAVI procedures are performed under local anesthetic, sedation and fluoroscopic rather than echocardiographic guidance. The heart valve team consists of two ...