Rhinoplasty effective treatment for nasal valve insufficiency
(HealthDay)—For patients with nasal valve insufficiency, functional and aesthetic-functional rhinoplasty, involving reconstruction of the lateral nasal wall achieved with use of spreader and alar...
View ArticleHeart valves made from tissue rather than metal may be better for middle-aged...
Patients between the ages of 40 and 70 who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) may fare better with tissue-based valves rather than metal-based valves, according to a review article posted online...
View ArticleNovel technique measures internal nasal valve surface area
(HealthDay)—Endoscopic suction-assisted evaluation of the internal nasal valve can measure internal nasal valve area and function, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in JAMA Facial Plastic...
View ArticleHeart valves in a new light
In all probability, at least one of the heart's valves – the mitral valve – functions entirely differently than previously believed. Neil Ingels, professor at the Stanford University School of...
View ArticleWomen have lower mortality than men at one year after TAVR
(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), women have lower mortality than men at one year, according to a study published online Feb. 23 in the Annals of...
View ArticleVeterinary college study and pioneering database tackle most common heart...
When Jane Shaw of Floyd, Virginia, brought her 14-year-old border collie, Clio, into the Veterinary Teaching Hospital last fall, she learned about a clinical research study at the Virginia-Maryland...
View ArticleModel developed to help predict risk of in-hospital death after TAVR
In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, Fred H. Edwards, M.D., of the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, and colleagues developed a statistical model to predict risk of...
View ArticleBoston Children's and Edwards Lifesciences launch pulmonary valve replacement...
Surgeons in the Heart Center at Boston Children's Hospital have partnered with Edwards Lifesciences to launch a clinical study of a new prosthetic heart valve for patients born with a congenital heart...
View ArticleMinimally invasive mitral valve surgery offers viable option for select heart...
Patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve repair or replacement (mini-MVR) have similar outcomes as patients undergoing conventional surgery and also experience shorter hospital stays and...
View ArticleResearchers find similar outcomes for patients with severe aortic stenosis...
Nearly 1.5 million Americans have aortic stenosis (AS), the narrowing of the aortic valve opening which restricts blood flow to the aorta. Historically, patients have been treated with open-heart...
View ArticleRates of death and stroke equivalent for surgery and TAVR at 2 years
Intermediate-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis who receive minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement, known as TAVR, have similar rates of death and disabling strokes after two...
View ArticleResearchers find transcatheter aortic valve replacement better for patients...
Aortic stenosis (AS), the narrowing of the aortic valve opening which restricts blood flow to the aorta, afflicts nearly 1.5 million people in the United States, with approximately 500,000 of them...
View ArticleHigher volume of TAVR boosts key in-hospital outcomes
The more frequently a hospital performs a minimally invasive technique called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, to replace a damaged aortic heart valve, the better patients fare, on...
View ArticleSAPIEN 3 improves outcomes for major endpoints at one year
Intermediate-risk patients who received transcatheter aortic valve replacement, known as TAVR, with the latest-generation valve fared better than patients receiving traditional surgical aortic valve...
View ArticleStudy suggests health risks, no benefit of combining mitral valve repair with...
Just released two-year follow up data comparing coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) with combined CABG and mitral valve repair in patients with moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) found no...
View ArticleResearchers identify a new signaling mechanism implicated in congenital...
Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have demonstrated the crucial role of the NOTCH signaling pathway in the development of a fundamental heart...
View ArticleFirst recommendations published on imaging assessment of prosthetic heart valves
The first recommendations on multimodality imaging assessment of prosthetic heart valves are published today in European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging.
View ArticleOregon scientists link signaling network to heart valve defects
May 5, 2016—A cell-to-cell signaling network that serves as a developmental timer could provide a framework for better understanding the mechanisms underlying human heart valve disease, say University...
View ArticleWalking ability predictor of adverse outcomes following cardiac surgery
Among more than 15,000 patients who underwent cardiac surgery, slow gait speed before surgery was associated an increased risk of death following surgery, according to a study published online by JAMA...
View ArticleStudy probes heart of synthetic heart valves
The quest for a synthetic heart valve that faithfully mimics the original is a step closer to its goal with the Rice University find that a natural polymer called hyaluronan, one of the chief...
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