TAVR (TAVI)
This single-center retrospective study evaluated 61 patients who underwent cardiac surgery after prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) during a 10-year period at a high-volume academic center. Cardiac surgery following TAVR was uncommon, accounting for...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...
This session features leading surgeons discussing the tricuspid valve at the Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece (THVGreece) 2026 conference. Moderators Vassilis Voudris, Director of the Cardiology/Interventional Cardiology Division, Onassis Cardiac Surgery...
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Filip Casselman, Staff Surgeon and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Center at OLV Clinic (AZORG), Aalst, Belgium, about...
This video completes a day of excellent presentations by leading surgeons exploring advanced minimally invasive techniques including congenital ventricular septal defect (VSD) surgery, endoscopic transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) explantation,...
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)...
Transcatheter aortic valve is usually implanted via transfemoral or transapical access. Reents and colleagues sought to compare the safety of these two access routes, using a retrospective analysis of their...
The Stanford University cardiac surgery team expounds on current evidence for selection of prostheses in valve replacement. While more liberal usage of biologic prostheses in younger patients may be appropriate...
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the available data on antithrombotic therapy after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Antiplatelet therapy (APT) is favored over the use of a vitamin K...
Mick Jagger has undergone a TAVR procedure in New York and is now recovering.
...In light of the recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommendation for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) volumes, this study looked at 113,662 TAVRs from the TVT registry from...
Patient Care and General Interest The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released their proposed update to the national coverage policy for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, in which...
A number of interesting findings in early follow up of this randomized controlled trial on one type of transcatheter aortic valve against conventional surgery: the mechanics of the valve and...


