ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - Hundreds of people have had a severe heart valve problems treated in the Quad Cities. UnityPoint Health is celebrating its 600th person to successfully receive a TAVR in the ...

From 2015 to 2020, the number of patients opting for valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (ViV-TAVR) over redo surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) rose significantly, from 35.3% ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . TAVR was tied to similar long-term mortality vs. surgical AVR for severe aortic stenosis. But use of ...

CHICAGO, IL—Patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are watched until symptoms develop before undergoing TAVI are a greater risk of dying, being hospitalized for heart failure (HF), or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The benefit of TAVR vs. clinical surveillance for patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis did not vary ...

People with a small aortic annulus, a part of the heart's anatomy where the left ventricle meets the aorta, who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a supra-annular ...

The UHS Heart & Vascular Institute recently celebrated a significant milestone with the completion of their 1,000th TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) procedure. This achievement is more ...

Abiomed is taking certain Impella Controllers off the market due to failing circuitry. One related death has already been reported, the FDA alerted. Medtronic announced FDA approval of a redo ...

A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with severe aortic stenosis even without symptoms. This is the first FDA ...

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 ...

FDA approved the Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) platform for treatment of severe aortic stenosis early in the disease process while patients still had no symptoms or other ...

Medtronic is pumping up its activation of heart valve disease patients. The company has partnered with an advocacy group for heart valve disease, Heart-Valve-Surgery.com, to create a digital platform ...