Criteria for who should get heart surgery and when are based primarily on research in men, but two studies suggest this leads ...

Traditional heart surgery requires weeks of recovery. But a procedure called TAVI allows patients to return home just a day after a major valve replacement ...

Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet has successfully performed a highly complex and rare TAVR-in-TAVR-in-SAVR procedure with ...

While doctors may recommend medications and lifestyle changes to support overall heart health, these approaches cannot stop ...

Edwards pushes CMS to expand Medicare TAVR coverage to asymptomatic patients, sparking controversy among physicians over ...

Several medical societies supported extending Medicare coverage for TAVR to patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis, but some physicians and rival Medtronic said more data is needed.

Pilot of rapid access valve assessment clinics in England has indicated success in closing healthcare inequality gap ...

As a super-fit Olympic medallist, I always felt a bit of a fraud as I sat in the cardiology unit waiting for my annual ...

(By Dr. Anusha A Rao) Aortic stenosis is predominantly a disease of ageing, arising from a gradual degenerative process in ...

A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health announced on Saturday the successful completion of the world’s first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure on a 111-year-old patient, ...

At 95 years old, Ventura Latorre was running out of time as severe aortic stenosis pushed him into repeated hospitalizations ...