The quality of an individual hospital’s cardiac surgical care may be a strong determinant of TAVR procedure outcomes, a new analysis suggests. “The primary takeaway of our findings is that strong ...

Time spent at home after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is important to patients but may also provide a more comprehensive measure of hospital performance and quality of care, new ...

The number of transcatheter aortic valve replacement cases performed in the US increased over a recent 3-year period, but the risk of in-hospital mortality continues to vary across different ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although 583 hospitals initiated new transcatheter aortic valve replacement programs from 2012 to 2018, the bulk ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA — Hospitals that performed 100 or more transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) procedures in a year (high-volume centers) had a 25% lower rate of hospital readmissions at 30 days ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As more elderly patients undergo the minimally invasive heart valve procedure called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR), concerns have been raised as to what causes some to ...

When Medicare in 2011 agreed to pay for a procedure to replace leaky heart valves by snaking a replacement through blood vessels, the goal was to offer relief to the tens of thousands of patients too ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The more transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs) performed by a center in a year, the less likely it was for patients to have to go back to the hospital, researchers found.

This paper summarizes the implications of recent TAVR program expansion, supports the 2019 multisociety expert consensus recommendation of Level 1 and Level 2 valve centers, and defines the important ...

A new study, published in JAMA Cardiology, examined the association between hospital transcatheter aortic valve replacement volume at a hospital and 30-day readmission rate. For the observational ...