Mitral valve dysfunction increased mortality, regardless of the presence of mitral annulus calcification. But patients with both conditions had the highest mortality, the study finds.

In the overall cohort of patients who underwent TAVI or surgery, valve dysfunction was associated with a 49%, 76%, and 48% increase in the hazard of 5-year all-cause mortality, cardiovascular ...

In a pooled analysis of two trials comparing self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement with surgical AVR, bioprosthetic valve dysfunction was less common with TAVR at 5 years ...

Mitral valve disease was observed in 16% of those patients. Among patients with mitral annulus calcification, 54% of those with mitral valve dysfunction were female, and frailty was common.

After 10 years of follow-up, a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement system was linked to lower rates of valve dysfunction and deterioration compared with surgical valves in low ...

The three main indications for surgery in patients with native-valve infective endocarditis are heart failure due to valvular dysfunction or perforation, uncontrolled endocardial infection (e.g ...

Medtronic has announced the Small Annuli Randomized To Evolut or SAPIEN (SMART) head-to-head comparative trial’s two-year outcomes of the Evolut transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve ...

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“We showed for the first time that structural valve dysfunction (SVD) of bioprosthetic valves is common at the time a young patient gets pregnant, as 40% of all aortic bioprosthetic valves had SVD and ...