Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart ... valve failure. In terms of repeat valve interventions, only patients who underwent re-do surgical aortic valve replacement or ...

When parts of the heart, such as the valves, do not work properly, it is possible to repair or replace them. The aortic and mitral valves are the ones that surgeons most commonly replace.

That’s not as long as mechanical ... transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), you get a thin tube that runs through a small opening in your leg and up to your heart. Your doctor uses ...

What Is Aortic Valve Stenosis? Aortic valve stenosis is a blockage in one of the valves that help control the flow of blood to and from your heart ... If you have a mechanical replacement valve ...

Aortic valve regurgitation happens when your aortic valve doesn’t fully close, causing some blood to remain in your left ventricle. It can cause symptoms like chest pain and fatigue, among others.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR ... surgeon will replace your heart valve with a natural-tissue valve from the heart of a pig or cow. This is called a biological tissue valve. Our ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—In patients ages 60 years or younger undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement, mechanical valves are associated ... “This data may inform heart teams in considering the optimal ...

Learn about the ACURATE Prime Aortic Valve System, a new TAVR device designed to improve treatment for severe aortic stenosis. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), also known as TAVR or ...

An Overland Park man is officially back home after an emotional trip to California. Daryll Johnson traveled more 1,500 miles ...

Bowdish, MD, vice chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Smidt Heart Institute ... transcatheter aortic valve replacement. The decline in the surgical placement of mechanical valves ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart ... valve failure. In terms of repeat valve interventions, only patients who underwent re-do surgical aortic valve replacement ...