Patients with congenital heart diseases often suffer from obstructions in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), which carries blood from the heart to the lungs. These obstructions can be ...
Patients with congenital heart diseases often suffer from obstructions in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), which carries blood from the heart to the lungs. These obstructions can be ...
SAN FRANCISCO — The PARTNER 2A trial shows similar rates of death or disabling stroke at 5 years for transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis at ...
Device preparation for downsizing the diameter of the pulmonary trunk. We designed and developed a self-expandable stent constructed from a single 0.22-mm nitinol wire in the shape of a conduit with a ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis and an intermediate surgical risk appear to fare just as well with TAVR as with surgery through 5 years of follow-up, with no ...
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Two French, propensity-matched analyses are suggesting that not all TAVR valves are created equal, with balloon-expandable devices associated with decreased mortality and rates of ...
Among patients with heart failure who have mitral regurgitation due to left ventricular dysfunction, the prognosis is poor. Transcatheter mitral-valve repair may improve their clinical outcomes. At 78 ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tip-top technique was important for longer-term survival after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure that was also shown to give patients better health status ...