The UHS Heart & Vascular Institute recently celebrated a significant milestone with the completion of their 1,000th TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) procedure. This achievement is more ...

The Lee Health Heart Institute recently hit a significant milestone—the team has performed more than 2,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures! The expert team of interventional ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - A new milestone for heart care in the Quad Cities, UnityPoint Health is celebrating its 600th successful Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR procedure.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — The options for cardiovascular procedures have expanded over the last decade. Among options for patients with aortic stenosis - a minimally invasive procedure known as ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a procedure that can treat narrowing of the aortic valve in the heart. It involves an expandable replacement valve that helps improve blood flow. A ...

Spring resident Vita Malloy is so averse to sitting still that she calls herself the Energizer Bunny. Malloy, 81, always says “yes” when a friend calls to ask if she’d like to go out for lunch or to a ...

No one was more surprised than Dr. Rick Dearman when he was diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, also known as heart valve failure. As a heart surgeon, he’d treated hundreds of people ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, TAVR appears to be just as beneficial as surgery.

A major international study has found that two widely used treatments for severe aortic valve disease — minimally invasive valve replacement and traditional open-heart surgery — may provide similarly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current long-term results have shown promise for TAVR, but have yet to elucidate on some important aspects of ...