Search Tag: bioprosthetic valve
2014 01 Sep
ESC Gold Medals were awarded over the weekend to three distinguished figures in the field of cardiology: cardiac surgeon Alain Carpentier, Oxford epidemiologist Sir Rory Collins and Czech Republic cardiologist Petr Widimský. The trio received their awards during the Inaugural Session of the 2014 ESC Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Professor Alain...Read more
2014 08 Jul
The one-year survival rate for patients who undergo transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation inside a malfunctioning bioprosthetic valve was 83.2 percent, according to a study by researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. With bioprosthetic valves becoming more common than mechanical ones in surgical aortic valve replacement, an evaluation...Read more