A high burden of heart valve diseases is driving its expansion. India’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) market ...

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The last two decades have seen an increase in the use of biological over mechanical heart valve replacements. However, while ...

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Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research led by the University of Bristol ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research has found.

With new transcatheter options for the repair or replacement of tricuspid valves, the role and timing of repair — whether surgical or minimally invasive — is entering a time of transition.

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

Consecutive patients were entered into valve registry in place at our Heart Valve Unit and provided written ... TAVR (Cerebral Embolic Protection during Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement) trial ...