Sentences with phrase «aortic valve replacement at»

For instance, a person with aortic valve replacement at age 39 might be denied life insurance.

Researchers analyzed records of 196 adult patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center between August 2012 and June 2016.

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The more frequently a hospital performs a minimally invasive technique called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, to replace a damaged aortic heart valve, the better patients fare, on average, immediately after the procedure, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

The introduction of minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for treatment of aortic stenos not only has increased the number of patients eligible for aortic valve replacement (AVR), but also has led to a decrease in patient mortality, according to a study released today at the 50th Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

The FDA approved the CoreValve System to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk for surgery based on groundbreaking research showing the transcatheter heart valve had superior survival rates at one year when compared to open - heart surgery, the current gold standard for aortic valve replacement.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a self - expanding valve prosthesis for the first time has demonstrated significantly lower death rates at one year compared with conventional surgical valve replacement in high - risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

Strong results from the other arm of CoreValve's U.S. Pivotal Trial with patients at extreme risk for standard aortic valve - replacement surgery were reported in October and led to Food and Drug Administration approval for the device in this population.