Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive ...
The US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is expected to approve the JenaValve Trilogy System, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device designed for aortic regurgitation (AR), by ...
Finally the second heart sound may be reduced in intensity. There are three main forms of aortic valve disease: congenital abnormalities, such as a bicuspid valve that leads to premature ...
A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...