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TAVR System Shows Durable Clinical Outcomes, Strong Valve Performance in Low-Risk Aortic Stenosis Patients

DAIC

Data shows, versus surgery, the Evolut transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system delivers a numerically lower rate of all-cause mortality or disabling stroke at five years, strong valve performance and durable clinical outcomes. Evolut TAVR vs. 9.3% Evolut TAVR vs. 9.3% Grubb, M.D., 1 Herrmann H.

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Major Win for Preemptive TAVR in Symptomless Aortic Stenosis

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) yielded clinical benefit when given early in the disease process while patients still had no symptoms or other indication for aortic valve replacement, according to the EARLY TAVR.

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Valvular and perivalvular thrombus after TAVR: Risks and Outcomes

Cardiology Update

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is the standard treatment for severe aortic stenosis, but post-TAVR leaflet thrombus, identified by hypoattenuated leaflet thickening (HALT), poses potential risks like cerebral thromboembolic events. Perivalvular thrombus has also been reported. Original article: Choi Y et al.

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Predictors of permanent pacemaker requirement in aortic stenosis patients undergoing self-expanding valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement using the cusp overlap technique

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

IntroductionSince TAVR was approved for lower-risk aortic stenosis (AS) patients, managing post-implantation conduction disturbances has become crucial, especially with self-expanding heart valves (SEV).

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What Are the Implications of Choosing a TAVR-First Strategy in the Lifetime Management of Aortic Stenosis?: A Critical Review of TAVR-Explant- and Redo-TAVR

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Some patients with aortic stenosis may require multiple valve interventions in their lifetime, and choosing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) as the initial intervention may be appealing to many. If their transcatheter heart valve degenerates later in life, most will hope to undergo redo-TAVR.

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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center Tops 5,000 TAVR Procedures

DAIC

Morristown Medical Center’s Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute’s structural heart program recently reported it has reached a significant milestone of performing over 5,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures, the first in New Jersey and among the first to accomplish this in the United States.

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Bacteraemia and infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: prevention is the key

Heart BMJ

Since the first implementation in 2002 by Alain Cribier, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become a standard procedure for high-risk and elderly patients with severe aortic valve stenosis. Recently, the use of TAVR has expanded to relatively younger patients with low to moderate surgical risk.