CHICAGO, IL—Interventionalists and surgeons are still digesting the results of a provocative study on transcatheter valve degeneration released at EuroPCR 2016, but already, experts are questioning ...

The TEER procedure is highly recommended for patients who are considered high surgical risk due to pre-existing issues like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, advanced age, physical frailty, enlarged or ...

Type 2 diabetes is a known determinant of degeneration of both native and prosthetic valve implants, so a group of Italian researchers investigated whether bioprosthetic valves also degenerate ...

The use of 18 F-fluoride positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) appears to be a more sensitive test than conventional assessments for the detection of subclinical valve ...

The mode of degeneration was aortic stenosis in 11.6% and aortic regurgitation in 15.8%. "That's very high," compared with a rate of valve degeneration in the low single digits in the pivotal ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I consider myself to be in good health. I work out several times a week, but recently I began experiencing episodes of shortness of breath after going up and down the stairs in my… ...

French researchers have developed a noninvasive ultrasound therapy to treat certain patients with aortic stenosis. In a small study published in The Lancet, they demonstrated its effectiveness ...

In the U.K. TAVI registry, there was a 5.9% incidence of severe structural valve degeneration (SVD) flagged at a median 7.8 years (range 5.1 to 12.7 years) after the procedure, according to Noman ...