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Patients whose aortic valve disease is treated with the Ross procedure are more likely to be alive 15 years later than those who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR), whether that’s with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement was associated with better long-term survival compared with ...

Adults who undergo the Ross procedure will fare far better over the next two decades than those treated with bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (AVR), according to a propensity-matched comparison ...

Sutureless aortic valve replacement (AVR) trumps conventional AVR and even early-generation transcatheter aortic valve replacement TAVR devices, according to two studies presented at the American ...

September 26, 2008 (Baltimore, MD) — Percutaneous aortic-valve (AV) replacement can't come soon enough? Not to worry: authors of a new study say a minimally invasive alternative to surgical AV ...

Mild-to-moderate AS is usually asymptomatic, and the onset of symptoms implies that the AS is severe. Early symptoms may include exertional shortness of breath, decreased exercise tolerances and ...

For more than a decade, cardiac surgeons have performed mini-AVR procedures to replace a diseased aortic valve that becomes obstructed or leaks blood from the heart. Patients are typically evaluated ...

A survey, published online in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, of 13,860 patients who had undergone interventions for aortic valve disease in Germany has revealed that over 80% were in ...