This case report presents the first procedure of a successful implantation of a rapid deployment aortic valve over a mechanical bileaflet valve.
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Aortic valve disease
June 5, 2023
Watch Professor Tom Verbelen, from the University Hospital Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, demonstrate a double valve procedure by implanting a Medtronic Avalus™ aortic valve and a Mosaic™ mitral valve.
June 1, 2023
The authors examined the safety of combining aortic root replacement with frozen elephant trunk (FET) total arch replacement. Outcomes were similar between the FET alone and FET with aortic root replacement groups.
Getinge Webinar: Advanced Aortic Root Surgery—A Diversity of Surgical Strategies from Global Experts
May 30, 2023
Check out this recording of a recent webinar CTSNet hosted in collaboration with Getinge, "Advanced Aortic Root Surgery—A Diversity of Surgical Strategies from Global Experts."
May 25, 2023
A study found that patients who underwent a second TAVR procedure were no more likely to experience adverse outcomes than those who have only undergone one TAVR.
May 4, 2023
A forty-six-year-old male with a history of bicuspid aortic valve and failed previous transcatheter aortic valve replacement for symptomatic aortic stenosis underwent surgical explantation of the failed transcatheter aortic valve followed by the Ross procedure using a pulmonary autograft-in-conduit technique with a 30 mm Gelweave graft and reconstruction with a 29 mm pulmonary homograft.
April 13, 2023
Models created using artificial intelligence can now be used to help identify patients who may need a permanent pacemaker after transcatheter valve surgery.
April 13, 2023
By analyzing a cohort of patients with aortic aneurysms who were not undergoing surgery, this study aimed to determine the natural course of an aortic aneurysm. The patients’ ascending aortic aneurysms grew very slowly, and growth over 0.2 cm per year was rarely seen.