Search Tag: Aortic Valve replacement

2025 04 Jun

Degenerative aortic stenosis (AS) and cardiac amyloidosis (CA), especially transthyretin-associated CA (ATTR-CA), often co-occur in elderly patients, with a dual pathology (AS-CA) found in approximately 10% of AS cases undergoing valve replacement. While earlier assumptions suggested valve replacement might be futile in AS-CA, studies have shown clear...Read more

2019 20 Mar

In the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) 3 trial, 1,000 patients with severe aortic stenosis and low surgical risk were randomly assigned to undergo either transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) or surgical aortic-valve replacement. In these patients, TAVR with transfemoral placement of a balloon-expandable valve was superior...Read more