Protembis, a privately-held emerging cardiovascular medical device company, announced today the establishment of a Scientific ...

Complete 10 year follow-up data were available only for 65% of the 300 adults randomised either to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for the treatment of obesity. Even so, it ...

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.

Patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis undergoing CoreValve or Evolut TAVI have better 5-year bioprosthetic valve ...

A novel therapeutic showed significant promise in slowing aortic valve calcification, potentially extending time until or eliminating need for transcatheter or surgical intervention for stenosis, ...

Having any sleep disorder is associated with an increased risk for aortic stenosis, according to an analysis of data from two large sets of electronic health records.

She covers current events, breaking news and issues including substance use. Sara Adair knows the symptoms of aortic dissections. The hospital analyst's father and sister each experienced the ...

In 2019, Johnson & Johnson, hoping to compete in the growing surgical robotics field, signed a multibillion-dollar contract with a small biotech company called ChemImage. Based in Pittsburgh ...

The largest markets for the devices include aortic and mitral valve replacements. Credit: surassawadee via Shutterstock. Laplace Interventional, a US-based medical device company focusing on ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...