Reuters

Health Rounds: Mechanical aortic valves may be preferable in younger patients needing replacement

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S ...

His chest felt like his son was lying on it. His doctor recommended a procedure that's "crazy even to heart surgeons."

Transit Officer Paul DeGeorge thought his son was lying on him. Then he realized something much scarier was happening.
MassDevice

Corcym reports first U.S. implantation of next-gen sutureless aortic valve

The Lancelot technology delivers enhanced hemodynamics through the integration of precision laser cutting and after ...
TCTMD

Shift From Mechanical to Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves in Middle-Aged Patients Gets Boost in Analysis

The tide is turning in the field of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR), with bioprosthetic devices increasingly being seen as an alternative to mechanical valves in middle-aged patients. That ...
Healio

Long-term survival, stroke rates similar between bioprosthetic, mechanical aortic valve replacement

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bioprosthetic and mechanical aortic valve replacement were associated with similar 15-year rates of all-cause ...
Business Wire

On-X Life Technologies Reports CE Mark Approval to Sell Its Mechanical Aortic Heart Valve with an Expanded Labeling Claim: a Reduction in the Required Use of Blood Thinners

“This approval allows European clinicians to maintain patients on a lower dose of anticoagulant, which has been shown in a multicenter clinical trial (PROACT: Prospective On-X Anticoagulation Clinical ...
TCTMD

Burden of Anticoagulation Can Be Reduced in Some Patients With Mechanical Valves

Patients at high risk for thromboembolism who undergo aortic valve replacement with a mechanical valve can safely take less than the standard dose of warfarin after 3 months, according to results of ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Bioprosthetic and Mechanical Aortic Valves Compared

(HealthDay News) — A new study compares two leading types of aortic valve replacements and finds they have similar performance in terms of long-term risk of stroke and death for patients. The findings ...
Medscape

Aortic Valves Surpass Prosthetics in Long-Term Survival

LOS ANGELES — Aortic mechanical valves are associated with better survival than bioprosthetic valves in patients aged 60 years or younger, showed 12-year survival data from a large surgical database.
News Medical

Characterizing the Mechanical Properties of Aortic Valve Tissue

Irreparable failure of the aortic valve occurs in some patients. This requires a type of cardiac surgery called aortic valve replacement in which a healthy functioning valve is used to replace the ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Hemolytic Anemia of Mechanical Origin with Aortic-Valve Prosthesis

The following report presents 3 cases of intravascular hemolysis that followed aortic-valve replacement with cusps composed of Dacron cloth impregnated with silicone rubber. 8,9 Hematologic data on 32 ...