Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for patients aged 60 and younger compared to bioprosthetic valves.

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

mechanical valves are associated with a survival benefit compared with bioprosthetic valves, according to new registry data. But their use, based on an analysis of more than 100,000 patients, has been ...

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The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages ...

A new study indicates that use of bioprosthetic plugs in the surgical treatment of complex anal fistulas is associated with a long-term success rate of 81%. The main focus of surgical treatment of ...

CALC is the principal failure mode of BHV fabricated from glutaraldehyde pretreated porcine aortic valves or bovine pericardium. Covalent binding of APD to residual glutaraldehyde in pericardial ...

“The decision between a bioprosthetic and mechanical valve is one of the most consequential for patients requiring aortic valve replacement,” said Dr. Michael Bowdish, lead author of the study ...

They found that in those aged 60 or younger, mechanical valves were independently associated with a lower risk of death from any cause over the next 12 years, compared with bioprosthetic devices ...