Revolutionary New Procedure Replace Faulty Valves Sans Open-Heart Surgery

Patients with aortic stenosis who are at high-risk or are considered inoperable now have another option of replacing the faulty heart valve without the need for open-heart surgery.

Patients with aortic stenosis who are at high-risk or are considered inoperable, now have another option of replacing the faulty heart valve without the need for open-heart surgery.

"This breakthrough technology could save the lives of thousands of patients with heart valve disease who have no other therapeutic options," says Dr. Ziyad Hijazi, director of the Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease and interventional cardiologist of the Rush Valve Clinic.

Aortic Valve Stenosis - Causes - Symptoms - Diagnosis - Replacement
Aortic valve Stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of the c valve. Symptoms include angina, and that of heart failure. Aortic valve replacement is effective therapy.

The new treatment is being offered at Rush University Medical Center through a multi-center, phase IIb cohort study called the PARTNER II (Placement of AoRTic traNscathetER valves) trial.

Results from the first phase of the PARTNER trial showed that the rate of death from any cause at one year was 50.7 percent in the patients who received standard therapy, as compared to 30.7 percent of patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

The transcatheter valve procedures take about 90 minutes, compared with four to six hours for open-heart surgery. In open-heart surgery, the surgeon cuts through the breastbone, stops the heart, removes the valve and replaces it. Open-heart surgery can require a two- to three-month recovery period, compared to only a few days for the transcatheter approach.

Mitral Valve Stenosis And Mitral Valve Replacement - Brief Information
Mitral valve replacement is a surgical heart procedure to correct either the narrowing (stenosis) or the leakage (regurgitation).

"The primary objective of the trial is to reduce death, major stroke and repeat hospitalization in these patients," said Hijazi.

"Additionally, we hope to improve quality-of-life indicators," he added.

Mitral Valve Disease and Replacement
Slide and animation on ‘Mitral Valve Disease and Replacement’ describing the anatomy, function of the valve and its replacement with an artificial one.

Source-ANI

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