Reuters

Health Rounds: Mechanical aortic valves may be preferable in younger patients needing replacement

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Aortic valve repair requires a choice: mechanical or tissue

Dear Dr. Roach: My brother, who is 48, has a leaky aortic valve. It is a birth defect in his bicuspid valve. His health is otherwise excellent. We have lined up a good surgeon. The problem is that my ...
Labroots

Bioprosthetic Valves Safer than Mechanical Valves for Aortic Valve Replacement Procedures

The aortic valve regulates blood flow by opening and closing, and when it stops working an aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery must be done for blood flow to resume like normal, delivering oxygen ...
TCTMD

Shift From Mechanical to Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves in Middle-Aged Patients Gets Boost in Analysis

The tide is turning in the field of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR), with bioprosthetic devices increasingly being seen as an alternative to mechanical valves in middle-aged patients. That ...
Healio

Long-term survival, stroke rates similar between bioprosthetic, mechanical aortic valve replacement

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bioprosthetic and mechanical aortic valve replacement were associated with similar 15-year rates of all-cause ...
Business Wire

On-X Life Technologies Reports CE Mark Approval to Sell Its Mechanical Aortic Heart Valve with an Expanded Labeling Claim: a Reduction in the Required Use of Blood Thinners

“This approval allows European clinicians to maintain patients on a lower dose of anticoagulant, which has been shown in a multicenter clinical trial (PROACT: Prospective On-X Anticoagulation Clinical ...
TCTMD

Burden of Anticoagulation Can Be Reduced in Some Patients With Mechanical Valves

Patients at high risk for thromboembolism who undergo aortic valve replacement with a mechanical valve can safely take less than the standard dose of warfarin after 3 months, according to results of ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Bioprosthetic and Mechanical Aortic Valves Compared

(HealthDay News) — A new study compares two leading types of aortic valve replacements and finds they have similar performance in terms of long-term risk of stroke and death for patients. The findings ...
News Medical

Characterizing the Mechanical Properties of Aortic Valve Tissue

Irreparable failure of the aortic valve occurs in some patients. This requires a type of cardiac surgery called aortic valve replacement in which a healthy functioning valve is used to replace the ...
health.economictimes.indiatimes

Mechanical aortic valves may be preferable in younger patients needing replacement

The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages of 40 and 79. They found that in those aged 60 or younger, mechanical ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aortic valve repair requires a choice: mechanical or tissue

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dear Dr. Roach • My brother, who is 48, has a leaky aortic valve. It is a birth defect in his bicuspid valve. His health is ...