LONDON, England—Treatment with the self-expanding Evolut PRO/R transcatheter heart valve (Medtronic) for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis significantly improves hemodynamics and effectively enlarges ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement had similar rates of stroke and all-cause ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Raj R. Makkar, MD, vice president of cardiovascular innovation and intervention and the Stephen R. Corday, MD, ...

Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has increasingly emerged as one of the primary treatments for ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease is the most common congenital cardiac malformation, affecting up to 2% of the population. Characterised by the presence of only two valve leaflets instead of the ...

In patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis who are at low surgical risk, TAVI with a contemporary balloon-expandable valve provides outcomes similar to those achieved in patients who have tricuspid ...

Patients who have undergone surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm related to having a bicuspid aortic valve have a low risk of future aneurysm events even if participating in endurance exercise, a new ...

Genetic variants linked to a rare form of bicuspid aortic valve disease that affects young adults and can lead to dangerous and potentially life-threatening aortic complications have been identified ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...