The following is a summary of "A new guiding strategy for treating the free margin of the leaflet in an aortic root ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...

The Food and Drug Administration has identified a Class I recall of Medtronic Aortic Root Cannulas due to a risk of ...

Medtronic has issued a recall for several aortic root cannula devices due to a potential safety risk that could cause loose ...

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

Patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk who underwent supra-annular, self-expanding Evolut transcatheter ...

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Current commercial devices have demonstrated rates between 11.2% to 35.3% PPM 1, a predictor of valve failure and disease progression. Anteris Chief Medical Officer, Chris Meduri, M.D., commented: ...