CABG plus surgical aortic valve replacement for treatment of coronary disease and aortic stenosis was associated with better ...

A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...

"As an aside, the Ross procedure, which is my preference in this age group, is the only aortic valve replacement procedure ...

Overall, patients undergoing AVR had a postoperative rate of AVB of 4% (26/672) compared with 0.6% (28/4,327) in patients undergoing non-AVR surgery (P < 0.0001).

Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002. [33] There have ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open-heart surgery. It is also called catheter-based or percutaneous (through the skin) aortic valve replacement. While ...

The Medicare data contradict results from the TCW randomized trial but better represent real-world practice, say authors.