The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) has published a first-of-its-kind educational resource for interventional cardiologists and imaging specialists performing ...

Ben McCullough met the 25 Edwards Lifesciences technicians who spent 20 hours hand-sewing 2,000 stitches to make a valve device implanted in his heart.

Based on the finalized national coverage determination (NCD) for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, Medicare will ...

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.

US medical device company Laplace Interventional has completed a Series C financing round to support the completion of an early feasibility study (EFS) of its transcatheter tricuspid valve (TTV) ...

What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China Background: Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is a common cardiovascular ...

Echocardiographic hemodynamics throughout the pregnancy, after mitral valvuloplasty at 30 weeks gestation, and postpartum in a patient with severe mitral stenosis. Parameters continued to be ...

The mitral valve is the most commonly repaired heart valve, but the aortic, pulmonic, and tricuspid valves may ... select patients who have mitral valve stenosis (narrowing of the mitral valve ...

Aortic valve stenosis “reduces or blocks blood flow from the heart ... two brand new technologies, one for full tricuspid valve replacement and one for percutaneous tricuspid valve repair, called the ...

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