Mechanical heart valves have improved long-term survival benefit over biological valves for patients aged 50-70 years, new ...

Often, the surgeon and cardiologist (heart doctor) will use transesophageal echo ... valve before and after surgery. The mitral valve is the most commonly repaired heart valve, but the aortic ...

LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve may start to have an advantage ...

“I think it's also a matter of definitions and how to interpret the definitions, and potentially there's also something to be said about how we interpret echo with the balloon ... heart failure ...