Sentences with phrase «treat aortic valve»

TAVR, a procedure used to treat aortic valve stenosis, involves threading a long, thin, flexible tube, called a catheter, through the femoral artery in the leg to the heart.

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TAVR was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2011 to treat patients with severe aortic valve stenosis — a problem that occurs when the valve in the heart's main artery doesn't open fully and forces the heart to work harder to pump blood — for whom standard surgical valve replacement is too risky.

Referencing a research article in the same journal issue that found hospital websites failed to disclose risk information for transaortic valve replacement (TAVR), a recently approved procedure to treat patients whose aortic valve does not open fully, London and Schenker pinpoint four risk concerns for patients seeking medical information online:

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.

Patients treated with the self - expanding TAVR device also reported improvement in NYHA classifications, durable improvement in hemodynamic valve performance, and low rates of moderate or severe aortic insufficiency.