Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

Conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) is the ‘gold standard’ for treatment of severe or symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. The increasing age of patients and increasing comorbidities ...

Conclusions: Patients at high risk for pacemaker implantation after heart surgery include those with preexisting conduction disturbances, and those undergoing aortic valve replacement. Of those ...

the beloved Houston icon and owner of Gallery Furniture, is on the road to recovery following a successful open-heart surgery.

According to hospital sources, the CVTS department informed the hospital dean in a letter dated December 4 that vendors had ...

Mother Martha Penturf holds her 4.5-month-old son Atlas, who had open heart surgery in November performed by Dr. Kristine J. Guleserian, as nurse practitioner Casey Cox opens his shirt showing his ...

Background Subclinical leaflet thrombosis (SLT) is a common complication after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Multidimensional CT (MDCT) is the main imaging mortality for the diagnosis ...

Minimally invasive treatments like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) have become viable alternatives to traditional open-heart surgeries for ...

The progression and expansion of open-heart surgery in Zimbabwe is quite encouraging and has had tremendous growth saving lives and foreign currency that otherwise could have been spent abroad in ...

27, 2024 — A large new population study of men over 45 indicates insulin resistance may be an important risk factor for the development of the world's most common heart valve disease -- aortic ...

Healthcare providers treating an acute heart attack will make sure that the patient is not also having a stroke before they use thrombolytic drugs (that is, “clot busters”). Thrombolytics are not a ...