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Surgical treatment of aortic valve disease

Tirone David expertly reviews the surgical repair and replacement of the aortic valve. Patient selection for aortic valve-sparing operations, bioprosthetic or mechanical valve insertion, pulmonary aut...

Warfarin After Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Implantation Warfarin After Bioprosthetic Valve Implantation

In North America, approximately 170 000 patients undergo aortic valve replacement annually, and the majority of these patients receive a bioprosthetic, rather than a mechanical, prosthesis. Bioprosth...

Warfarin Treatment After Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement

To the Editor: Dr Mérie and colleagues reported that discontinuation of warfarin treatment within 6 months after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery was associated with increased car...

Transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve replacement effective

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve (VIV) implantation is effective in the "vast majority" of patients with degenerated stenotic or regurgitant bioprosthetic va...

Give warfarin for six months after aortic valve surgery: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients who receive a bioprosthetic aortic valve should continue warfarin for at least six months, Danish doctors advise.

Warfarin for Six Months for Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves

Guidelines on the optimal anticoagulation to use following surgical aortic-valve replacement with a bioprosthesis should be amended following the results of a new Danish study, say its authors and acc...

Longer Warfarin Tx Helps After Biologic Valve (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Extended warfarin treatment after receiving a bioprosthetic aortic valve may prevent a substantial number of cardiovascular deaths, a Dutch registry study suggested.

ApoB/ApoA1 Ratio Predicts Bioprosthetic Valve Degeneration

ApoB/apoA1 ratio predicted functional degeneration of aortic-valve bioprostheses in a prospective study, with implications for possible therapy. What did it mean that bisphosphonate use was also a pre...

Diagnosis of Structural Deterioration in an Aortic Bioprosthetic Valve by Multidetector Row Computed Tomography: Report of a Case.

A 32-year-old female patient presented with shortness of breath. The patient had received aortic valve replacement with a 25-mm bioprosthetic valve at the age of 22, and had had two babies, postoperat...

Prosthetic Valve Re-replacement One Year after the Surgery using a Mosaic Bioprosthesis.

A 69-year-old man underwent aortic valve replacement with a 21 mm-Mosaic bioprosthetic valve for the treatment of aortic valve stenosis and resulting syncope. One year after the 1st operation, syncope...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for treatment of patients with degenerated aortic bioprostheses - valve-in-valve technique.

BACKGROUND:: The management of patients with degeneration of surgical bioprosthetic valve replacement remains a challenge due to the higher risk of re-do aortic valve replacement. We present a case se...

Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Implantation for Failed Surgical Bioprosthetic Valves.

When bioprosthetic cardiac valves fail, reoperative valve replacement carries a higher risk of morbidity and mortality compared with initial valve replacement. Transcatheter heart valve implantation m...

Surgical treatment of aortic valve disease.

The development of intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiography together with improved understanding of the functional anatomy of the aortic valve have allowed the design of several new conservati...