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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
2014 17 Aug
Doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital in the United States have used a minimally invasive procedure to replace a failing, hard-to-reach heart valve with a new one and placed it just outside the heart. This is the first time this unique transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure has been performed in the United States. It was originally pioneered...Read more