An 80-year-old man has undergone a groundbreaking cardiac procedure at the Cardiocenter in Santiago de Cuba, marking an ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is among the most widespread and dangerous diseases that may cause death. Recently, Endovascular Aneurysm Repair outperformed open aortic surgery, since it is a safe ...

Evidence-based recommendations on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for native aortic valve regurgitation. This involves implanting a replacement valve inside the faulty native valve.

A study is reported of an annual follow-up over a 15- to 20-year period of the survivors of the first 1,000 patients undergoing closed mitral valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. In addition to a report ...

Unfortunately, balloon valvuloplasty suffers from exceedingly high restenosis rates with 50%-75% of patients being symptomatic within 6 months. [25] Furthermore, many centers report procedural ...

Background The evaluation of long-term inflammatory response and function in postoperative patients with aortic valve replacement (AVR) deserves special analysis because it is important to try to ...

A Mansfield 20 mm x 5.5 cm balloon was inflated twice and the post-valvuloplasty gradient was 31 mm Hg and the aortic valve area was 0.82 cm2.

Median follow-up at 77.0 months (72.6–81.5) showed no significant difference in all-cause mortality (33.2% vs 40.4%, P=0.586) or late aortic valve (AV)–related events, including myocardial infarction, ...

Aortyx announced today that it brought in $16 million (€13.8 million) to support its bioresorbable aortic patch technology. The company expects the funding to help bring the patch to first-in ...

Objective We retrospectively analysed outcome data from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) study to assess the incidence and potential risk factors of sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...

Objective To assess prevalence, incidence, prognosis and progression of degenerative valvular aortic stenosis (AS). Setting The Tromsø Study and the University Hospital of North Norway. Design ...