Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is the most common valvular disease and the third most common cardiovascular disease, with a growing impact in the aging population. AVS culminates in heart failure if left ...

Pretranscatheter aortic valve replacement-CT angiography safely deferred the need for invasive coronary angiography in 53% of patients, according to a study published May 21 in Circulation ...

While the heightened risk of stroke in their analysis was surprising, Cuisset pointed out that the NOTION-2 investigators also observed a higher risk of adverse clinical outcomes, including stroke, in ...

Aortic valve calcium score (AVCa) measured on noncontrast computed tomography (CT) is well-established for grading aortic stenosis (AS) severity. However, thresholds for AVCa measured on contrast CT ...

Patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk who underwent supra-annular, self-expanding Evolut transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) had similar rates of death or disabling ...

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had an overall mortality rate of just 8.1% at one year, well below the trial’s ...

Using echocardiography, cardiac CT and X-ray, the researchers observed an approximately 70% slowing in plaque progression compared with placebo and improvements in aortic valve area and left ...