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Aortic Regurgitation News

CMS draft of proposed coverage for TAVI

TheHeart.Org
Baltimore, MD - The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a memo detailing its proposed coverage for transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) [1]. The move follows a request for national coverage determination (NCD) from the ...
 

"Valve-on-a-stick" transaortic TAVI offers alternative to transfemoral route

TheHeart.Org
The postprocedural mean and peak gradients were 6.2 and 11 mm Hg, respectively, and none of the patients had more than grade 2 aortic regurgitation at discharge. As might be expected for patients of this high risk, about 5% of patients had renal ...
 

What to do about too many medical tests

Philadelphia Inquirer
Performing routine periodic echocardiography in asymptomatic patients with mild aortic stenosis more frequently than every 3-5 years. Routinely repeating echocardiography in asymptomatic patients with mild mitral regurgitation and normal left ...
 

Transapical aortic valve implantation at 3 years

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: Our objective was to analyze the results of transapical aortic valve implantation in high-risk patients with aortic stenosis at up to 3 years after the procedure. Methods: A total of 299 patients underwent transapical aortic valve ...
 

Matters of heart

Deccan Chronicle
The left ventricle also can undergo hypertrophy and enlargement in response to volume overloading as seen when there is regurgitation (leaking) of the mitral or aortic valves which control the inflow and outflow of left ventricle.
 

Abbott Reports Double-Digit Ongoing Earnings-Per-Share Growth in Fourth ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)
... the treatment of select patients with mitral regurgitation (MR), the most common valve disease in the world. Significant MR affects more than 8 million people in the United States and Europe, and is four times more prevalent than aortic stenosis.