Compared with usual care, a system of electronic provider notification more often enabled patients diagnosed with severe ...

For patients with symptomatic aortic regurgitation at high surgical risk, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement system ...

The “passive” notification led to more patients with severe AS undergoing valve replacement, but more can be done still.

The aortic valve is a door that separates ... in diagnosing the problem where the pressure gradient between the heart and aorta increases above a mean of 40 mm Hg, which is called severe aortic ...

Data shows, versus surgery, the Evolut™ transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR ... larger effective orifice areas (EOA) and lower mean gradients in the TAVR vs. surgical arms "At five ...

Medtronic has reported late-breaking data from the randomised Evolut Low Risk Trial’s five-year outcomes of the Evolut transcatheter aortic valve ... and lower mean gradients in the TAVR group ...

Patients receiving TAVR demonstrated superior valve performance over the five years, with larger effective orifice areas and lower mean gradients ... patients with severe aortic stenosis ...

Hemodynamics were better with TAVR, with a significantly lower mean aortic valve gradient (10.7 mm Hg vs. 12.8 mm Hg with SAVR) and the mean effective orifice area was significantly larger (2.1 cm2 vs ...

6.3%, p<0.001), as well as a higher mean transaortic gradient (12.8 vs. 11.7 mm Hg, p<0.001), stroke volume index (SVI) (44.6 vs. 41.1, p<0.0001) and aortic valve area (1.87 vs. 1.82, p=0.895). In ...