Edwards Lifesciences reported on Feb. 1 fourth-quarter 2017 sales of $888.5 million, a 16 percent growth year over year. The increase was largely driven by the success of the Transcatheter Heart Valve Therapy division, which brought in $519.3 million in revenue for the quarter

Enknvally Jayasimha lived for four decades before discovering he had a rare congenital heart defect that kills nearly all babies who don’t have corrective surgery.

Symptoms of depression are widespread among elderly patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery, and the condition is associated with as much as a threefold increase in mortality risk a year after the procedure, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology this week.

Next-day discharge after minimalist transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was safe for patients who didn’t experience perioperative complications and was linked to better one-year outcomes versus patients discharged later, according to a single-center study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) rolled out new guidelines for managing valvular heart disease (VHD) in 2017, marking the second overhaul of VHD recommendations in three years—a move attributable to “extensive new data” that have shaped the way clinicians treat valve disease.

A larger valve option and more appropriate valve sizing using preprocedural imaging may eliminate the previously reported survival disparity between men and women undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a new study in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions suggests.

Procedures to replace or repair patients’ tricuspid valves (TVs) remain rare but have increased in recent years, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. But despite this increased volume, in-hospital mortality has remained steady at 8.8 percent.

The Centera transcatheter heart valve (THV) shows promise in addressing the “Achilles’ heel” of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), according to Luis Nombela-Franco, MD, PhD, who wrote an editorial about the device’s pivotal study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.