The randomized ACCESS-TAVI study led by PD Dr. Tobias Rheude and DZHK-Prof. Michael Joner from the German Heart Center Munich and the German Center for Cardiovascular Research shows that a combined ...

May 2, 2012 (San Francisco, California)— Too many patients who cannot benefit from aortic-valve replacement are being treated with transcatheter valve implants, according to Dr Craig Miller (Stanford ...

The incidence of implantation of a permanent pacemaker immediately after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) increased significantly over a period of 6 years in Spain, and this rising trend ...

A new study shows a 45% reduction in operative mortality in high risk patients requiring aortic valve replacement when Least Invasive Valve techniques are used compared to the conventional approach.

A study has shown that a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery. A study led by researchers at the National Institute for Health ...

Researchers support limiting these surgeries to centers that do the most cases, though true high-volume hospitals remain rare ...

NICE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caranx Medical (‘Caranx’), a French medical device company specializing in the development of autonomous robot to democratize access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

The registry is part of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) of surveys and registries. Today's presentation reveals current usage of the most modern ...

In patients who require a valve-in-valve (ViV) transcatheter procedure for a failed aortic bioprosthesis, the choice of ...

A study led by researchers at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre has shown that a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is ...