Aortic stenosis, affecting nine million people globally, is often unnoticed as symptoms are mistaken for aging. This heart ...

Patients with minimal sedation will have their valve examined by transthoracic echocardiography (another type of ultrasound). We will place a temporary pacing wire in the heart so we can control the ...

Whether transcatheter aortic-valve replacement can improve outcomes in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis has been unclear. New research findings comparing TAVR with clinical ...

It's called transcatheter aortic valve replacement — or TAVR. We're learning more with Dr. Clauden Louis, cardiothoracic surgeon with BayCare.

The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002. [33] There have been three generations of the Cribier-Edwards SAPIEN valve. The only valve that has FDA approval is the Edwards SAPIEN ...

TAVR is a dynamic field ... What’s more, imaging was mostly two-dimensional and exclusively with echocardiography. Now we have 3-D approaches with echo, cardiac CT and MRI to illuminate the ...

Current long-term management strategies for AS include surgical AVR and transcatheter AVR (TAVR). In older patients with severe AS, ancillary testing (Box 1) may be needed to determine ...