For over a decade, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) has been at the forefront of aortic valve innovation, advancing ...

A device in clinical development appears to be far safer and more effective than the TAVI devices currently being used ...

“It’s a stent, basically, that’s crimped onto a balloon, put onto over a wire, in through the leg, up to the heart, through ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open-heart surgery. It is also called catheter-based or percutaneous (through the skin) aortic valve replacement. While ...

Pitted against more established balloon-expandable Sapien 3 valves in TAVR for severe aortic stenosis, the Myval devices ...

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had an overall mortality rate of just 8.1% at one year, well below the trial's ...

JenaValve today announced new results from an expanded cohort receiving its Trilogy transcatheter heart valve (THV) system.

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The ascending aorta forms the beginning or handle of the cane and originates at the aortic valve. The ascending aorta includes the ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...