Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health’s new transcatheter aortic valve replacement program helped one of its first patients in September. The TAVR program is led by Dr. Chittoor Sai Sudhakar, chief of ...

Both Gary LeGros, 70, a Jeanerette city judge, and Paul Herman Toups, an 84-year-old retired small-business owner, underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, a minimally invasive ...

Once reserved for very high-risk patients, the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in low-risk cases has increased ...

This paper summarizes the implications of recent TAVR program expansion, supports the 2019 multisociety expert consensus recommendation of Level 1 and Level 2 valve centers, and defines the important ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 13—Union Health on Wednesday announced it has performed its 500th successful TAVR procedure, or transcatheter aortic valve ...

The Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) took a tepid step toward keeping and/or possibly discarding procedural volume requirements for new and continuing ...

The UHS Heart & Vascular Institute recently celebrated a significant milestone with the completion of their 1,000th TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) procedure. This achievement is more ...

The Lee Health Heart Institute recently hit a significant milestone—the team has performed more than 2,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures! The expert team of interventional ...

Carson Tahoe Health has completed its 50th Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement procedure. TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure that replaces a narrowed aortic valve without the need for ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center and its team of world ...

Cardiothoracic Surgeon Geoffrey R. Cousins, MD, FACS, left, and Interventional Cardiologist Jason Schott, DO, mark the 100th transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure performed at Memorial ...

Each February during American Heart Month, there’s an increased focus on heart disease – the leading cause of death in the U.S. But the focus is often limited to the most common form, coronary heart ...