Patients at low surgical risk with severe aortic stenosis experience similar long-term health improvements after TAVR and SAVR.

For all the innovation, engineering, and miniaturization that has helped to refine surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement over the last few decades, they still fall short of ideal. That ...

A normal aortic valve is composed of three aortic-valve cusps, each semilunar in appearance. The leaflets are housed within a small dilatation of the proximal aorta associated with each cusp, called ...

Aortic stenosis causes impaired blood flow out of the heart and is usually progressive. The increased cardiac workload leads to left ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmias, and may lead to ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) demonstrated better short-term outcomes, while surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) had better long-term outcomes. A recent study found that when it ...

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Nowadays, doctors can replace any number of body parts with man-made ones, including hips, knees, eye lenses, even heart valves. And the medical advances keep coming. CBS2's Dr ...