TAVR is a less invasive procedure than traditional open-heart surgery, offering faster recovery, reduced risk, and shorter hospital stays for patients with severe aortic stenosis.

What to make of the results remains uncertain, but experts agree that greater vigilance in low-risk patients is warranted.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) gives broadly comparable results to conventional open surgery, with equal efficacy, faster recovery time and improved quality of life at one year, ...

Principal investigator Dr Craig Smith (Columbia University, New York, NY) presented the one-year results here at the American College of Cardiology 2011 Scientific Sessions/i2 Summit today. Those ...

Among a group of high-risk patients who developed infective endocarditis (IE) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation, cardiac surgery failed to improve clinical outcomes when compared with ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was superior to surgical aortic valve replacement for reducing death, stroke or rehospitalization in women with severe aortic stenosis, according to late ...

People who underwent a minimally invasive procedure to have their heart's aortic valve replaced had similar health outcomes years after treatment as people who had surgery, Cedars-Sinai investigators ...

Medanta-The Medicity in Noida has launched its Structural Heart Interventional Cardiology Programme with the successful ...

In a major step forward toward advance cardiac care, Medanta-The Medicity, Noida, has successfully carried out its first ...

People didn't have to wait long after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) to safely undergo noncardiac surgery, though suboptimal device performance should give pause for another ...

With careful selection, same-day hospital discharge was found to be feasible and safe in around one-fifth of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation in a study presented today at ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure that involves replacing the aortic valve in people with aortic stenosis. It has several benefits over open heart surgery ...