LONDON, England—Real-world use of cerebral embolic protection in patients undergoing TAVR for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis lowers the rate of periprocedural stroke when compared against TAVR ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — In PROTECTED TAVR, the largest-ever randomized trial of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a cerebral protection system experienced fewer ...

The Sentinel cerebral protection system (Boston Scientific) was infrequently used during TAVI procedures performed in Germany over a recent 3-year span, and it was not associated with less clinical ...

Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with procedure-related stroke. Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices may reduce embolization to the cerebral circulation and hence the ...

CHICAGO -- Routine use of devices to prevent cerebral emboli during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) did not prevent strokes, a large randomized trial showed. Incidence of stroke within ...

The REFLECT II randomized clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a device designed to reduce cerebral embolization and ischemic stroke, complications of transcatheter aortic valve ...

High-risk surgical patients in community hospital settings can safely benefit from the use of new embolus-removing and stent-inserting systems, according to a study presented today at the American ...

PARIS, FRANCE — A porous cerebral-protection shield placed in the aortic arch during transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) and retracted afterward seemed to reduce the 30-day burden of ...

Protembis GmbH received €20 million (US$21.66 million) in financing from the European Investment Bank to develop its cerebral embolic protection system, Protembo. The intra-aortic filter device ...

Elective carotid artery angioplasty and stenting was initiated in the United States in 1994 by the endovascular interventional team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Carotid stenting was ...