For some children born with congenital heart disease, prosthetic valves that maintain a healthy flow of blood are a harsh reality of their young lives. This not only requires open heart surgery to ...
Among women of reproductive age who have bioprosthetic valves (BPVs), structural dysfunction is common and increases risk for cardiac events in pregnancy compared with normally functioning BPVs, ...
NEW YORK, NY—Development of bioprosthetic valve dysfunction (BVD) may contribute to worse outcomes at 5 years after transcatheter or surgical valve replacement in patients with symptomatic severe ...
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied long-term morbidity and mortality in individuals who have had different models of biological heart valves implanted. The results, which show ...
Odds of an uncomplicated pregnancy with a live birth were lower for mothers with mechanical valves versus biological valves. Risks from anticoagulation appeared highest with low-molecular-weight ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Repeat transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (redo-TAVR) appears to be a reasonable option when transcatheter aortic valves fail, according to findings from the Redo-TAVR ...
Heart transcatheter The FDA has approved the supplemental New Drug Application for Xarelto (rivaroxaban; Janssen) to include updated information for patients with prosthetic heart valves. The Food and ...