Each year, more than 200 million catheters are used worldwide to treat vascular diseases, including heart disease and artery ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal ...

A GENOME-wide association study (GWAS) has identified 17 genetic loci linked to the risk of developing aortic stenosis (AS), ...

The NOTION-3 study investigated if routine revascularization with PCI and transcatheter aortic valve replacement improves ...

In a trial that many are calling landmark, transcatheter aortic valve replacement had better outcomes than surveillance for ...

Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute self-limited febrile illness that primarily affects children <5 years old, is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries, with the potential of ...

The RHEIA trial studied women with severe aortic stenosis and found that participants preferred transcatheter aortic valve replacement over surgical valve replacement.

A doctor may then perform follow-up tests to confirm a diagnosis, examine the severity of aortic stenosis, and decide the best course of treatment. Tests may include echocardiography, which uses ...

Cardiawave said its device for the treatment of severe symptomatic calcific aortic stenosis (CAS) met the primary endpoint in ...

During the change of seasons when the daily temperature difference between day and night increases, it is easy to be exposed ...

However, heart valve disease doesn’t have symptoms in its early stages. There are many types of valve disease, including ...

The first powered randomized trial examining early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with asymptomatic, severe aortic stenosis (AS) found this strategy to be ...