Surgeons at Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine’s Heart and Vascular Institute performed the world’s first robotic transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortic valve replacement.  The ...

Each woman suffered the same rare heart disease, but at different times and with different surgeries, one more complicated ...

A patient in Upper Egypt's Luxor covered by the Universal Health Insurance System (UHIS) underwent a first-of-its-kind ...

Aortic valve narrowing (aortic stenosis) with concomitant cardiac amyloidosis is a severe heart disease of old age that is ...

Aortic valve narrowing (aortic stenosis) with concomitant cardiac amyloidosis is a severe heart disease of old age that is ...

Risk of surgical aortic valve replacement was estimated with the logistic EuroSCORE ... aortic annular dimensions between 20 mm and 27 mm and an ascending aortic diameter of <45 mm, (3) age≥75 years ...

The assessments were performed independently by 2 reviewers (T.X.V. and K.R.). Two studies examined ascending aorta replacement/hemiarch replacement in conjunction with bare metal stent grafts. A ...

In some cases, only the ascending aortic segment needs to be treated, while in others full root replacement is required. Reduction aortoplasty has been superseded largely by interposition graft ...

Background: Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in selected proximal (Stanford type A) aortic dissection (TAAD) cases has been reported, however, the limitation and criteria for TEVAR applied ...