Among young adults with aortic regurgitation (AR), those undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) before they met standard criteria were more likely to achieve good results from the surgery, a study ...
Cardiothoracic Surgeon Geoffrey R. Cousins, MD, FACS, left, and Interventional Cardiologist Jason Schott, DO, mark the 100th transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure performed at Memorial ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Stormont Vail Health announced that their cardiology team completed its 500th Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure. According to Stormont Vail Health, the TAVR ...
Aortic valve replacements (AVRs) performed with the Ross procedure are on the rise in North American centers, with the best results achieved at higher-volume centers and with experienced surgeons, ...
A simpler alternative to open heart surgery is gaining popularity, but some find ​their new valves don’t last as long as they hoped.
Robert Shanahan needed surgery only twice in his life coming into this year, once to remove his tonsils when he was young, the other more recently when he needed a stent to open one of his blood ...