SYDNEY, Jan. 12 (UPI) --Middle-aged patients who have aortic valve replacement, or AVR, may do better after surgery with tissue-based valves rather than metal ones, according to a new study. ...

"A metallic valve is long lasting but requires the patient to take lifelong blood thinning drugs. ... "Patients who have a tissue valve replacement usually don't need to take this medication.

Heart valve disease and options. The researchers wrote that around the world, over 1.3 million people suffer from diseased and damaged heart valves, and their heart valves need repair or replacement.

Four complex heart surgeries were done without a single chest cut using TPVR Read ahead to know how this minimally invasive ...

Rheumatic heart disease, linked to rare rheumatic fever, leads to high-risk, complex operation—one that many heart surgeons ...

Guyana's first heart valve replacement patient, Janet Yassin died of unknown causes on Sunday, just over three weeks after she had the surgery and was. Submit. Subscribe for just 30¢ a day; ...

Doctors at MGM Healthcare Hospital successfully performed a mitral valve replacement on a 38-year-old man from Madurai with a MITRIS valve, a tissue valve from the USA.

A team of doctors performed a mitral valve replacement on a 38-year-old man with an imported tissue valve, MITRIS. The patient from Madurai was suffering from severe breathlessness due to mitral ...

Mary Ann Kozlowski is the longest survivor of an artificial double heart valve replacement, at 49 years and 92 days. ... Metal valves generally last longer than tissue valves tend to, he says.

Thankfully, while an aortic valve replacement surgery used to mean a physically taxing open-heart procedure, a new, minimally invasive surgery called TAVR is now the recommended option.

Patients between the ages of 40 and 70 who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) may fare better with tissue-based valves rather than metal-based valves, according to a review article.