Mansfield News Journal

TAVR procedure at OhioHealth Mansfield allows for faster recovery than open-heart surgery

Of the two heart valve surgeries Janice Smith has had at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, the second was much easier for her. "I had a good experience both times," the 86-year-old said. "It's just that ...
MedPage Today

Embattled TAVR Device Myval Meets Expectations in Trial, but Trouble Still Ahead

Indian-made Myval and Myval Octacor were put to the test against Sapien 3 in the noninferiority trial COMPARE TAVI-1. Noninferiority was demonstrated when counting deaths, strokes, moderate or severe ...
Business Wire

Edwards TAVR Receives FDA Approval for Patients With Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

ViV-TAVR Leads to Fewer Complications, but Increases Later Heart Failure Hospitalizations and Mortality

From 2015 to 2020, the number of patients opting for valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (ViV-TAVR) over redo surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) rose significantly, from 35.3% ...
Kaleido Scope

Still and Cardiothoracic Surgery faculty publish findings on outcomes for high-risk patients following TAVR explantations

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has revolutionized the treatment of aortic valve stenosis. With proven safety and efficacy, TAVR has become a standard therapeutic alternative to surgical ...
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Dapagliflozin found to be safe and effective in elderly patients with heart failure undergoing valve replacement

Patients with heart failure who took dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor, after undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were significantly less likely ...
Medscape

How Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Is Changing the Lives of Cardiac Patients

While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...
MedPage Today

First 7-Year Report of Low-Risk TAVR Reassures, With Finish Line Now in Sight

SAN FRANCISCO -- Long-term outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were looking more and more like those after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in low-risk patients, ...
Healio

FDA approves first TAVR platform to treat severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transcatheter aortic valve replacement platform was approved for severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis. Edwards ...
Healio

‘Minimalist approach’ of local anesthesia without sedation safe for many during TAVR

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A strategy of local anesthesia without sedation was safe vs. conscious sedation for patients undergoing TAVR.
TCTMD

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure and Moderate Aortic Stenosis: The TAVR UNLOAD Trial

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Grant ...