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 ...

An aortic valve replacement can be a lifesaving measure to preserve healthy heart function and robust circulation throughout the body. Like any heart procedure, the recovery can be lengthy and require ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure to replace your aortic valve. The aortic valve controls blood flow from your heart to your aorta, the main artery that ...

While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...

Cardiawave received CE mark approval for Valvosoft, its non-invasive therapeutic alternative for treating aortic stenosis (AS ...

Testing by Rutgers Health and other institutions is reshaping how – and how gently – doctors repair failing valves ...

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he had undergone a procedure at the Cleveland Clinic to replace his aortic valve. He tweeted: "Thanks to the team at the Cleveland ...

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. Most valve ...

Using ultrasound waves, Cardiawave’s Valvosoft is touted as the first non-invasive treatment for severe symptomatic aortic ...

NEW YORK, NY—Midterm results out to 3 years show that transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve (ViV) replacement for a failed surgical valve is a safe procedure associated with lower risks of death and ...