St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aortic valve repair requires a choice: mechanical or tissue

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dear Dr. Roach • My brother, who is 48, has a leaky aortic valve. It is a birth defect in his bicuspid valve. His health is ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Mechanical or Biologic Prostheses for Aortic-Valve and Mitral-Valve Replacement

In patients undergoing aortic-valve or mitral-valve replacement, either a mechanical or biologic prosthesis is used. Biologic prostheses have been increasingly favored despite limited evidence ...

Mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients aged 60, study finds

A study presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve ...
News Medical

Mechanical aortic valves showed improved long-term survival in patients aged 60 and younger

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 ...
MedPage Today

60 or Younger? A 'Wake Up Call' for Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement

LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve may start to have an advantage, ...
Medscape

Survival Greater With Mechanical vs Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves: Long-Term Cohort Study

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Long-term survival rates are about two-thirds higher for patients in their 50s who undergo aortic-valve replacement with mechanical prostheses compared with bioprostheses, a ...
Reuters

Health Rounds: Mechanical aortic valves may be preferable in younger patients needing replacement

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, U.S ...

Researchers identify potential benefits of trileaflet mechanical heart valves

According to the American Heart Association, valvular heart disease affects about 2.5% of adults in the United States, and ...
Labroots

Bioprosthetic Valves Safer than Mechanical Valves for Aortic Valve Replacement Procedures

The aortic valve regulates blood flow by opening and closing, and when it stops working an aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery must be done for blood flow to resume like normal, delivering oxygen ...
TCTMD

Shift From Mechanical to Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves in Middle-Aged Patients Gets Boost in Analysis

The tide is turning in the field of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR), with bioprosthetic devices increasingly being seen as an alternative to mechanical valves in middle-aged patients. That ...
Business Wire

On-X Life Technologies Reports CE Mark Approval to Sell Its Mechanical Aortic Heart Valve with an Expanded Labeling Claim: a Reduction in the Required Use of Blood Thinners

“This approval allows European clinicians to maintain patients on a lower dose of anticoagulant, which has been shown in a multicenter clinical trial (PROACT: Prospective On-X Anticoagulation Clinical ...
EurekAlert!

New study finds mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients aged 60 and younger

LOS ANGELES—January 25, 2025—A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide ...