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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bioprosthetic and mechanical aortic valve replacement were associated with similar 15-year rates of all-cause mortality and stroke, according to data published in JAMA. Researchers evaluated 4,253 ...

“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 ...

(HealthDay News) — A new study compares two leading types of aortic valve replacements and finds they have similar performance in terms of long-term risk of stroke and death for patients. The findings ...

Choosing the optimal aortic valve prosthesis for middle-aged patients (late 40s to early 60s) with aortic stenosis presents a challenge. The available options all have substantial drawbacks that must ...

Irreparable failure of the aortic valve occurs in some patients. This requires a type of cardiac surgery called aortic valve replacement in which a healthy functioning valve is used to replace the ...