LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve may start to have an advantage ...

Bioprosthetic and Mechanical Aortic Valves Compared. October 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) — A new study ...

In patients undergoing aortic-valve or mitral-valve replacement, either a mechanical or biologic prosthesis is used. Biologic prostheses have been increasingly favored despite limited evidence ...

The aortic valve regulates blood flow by opening and closing, and when it stops working an aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery must be done for blood flow to resume like normal, delivering oxygen ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My brother, who is 48, has a leaky aortic valve. It is a birth defect in his bicuspid valve. His health is otherwise excellent. We have lined up a good surgeon. The problem is that ...

Bioprosthetic and mechanical aortic valve replacement were associated with similar 15-year rates of all-cause mortality and stroke, according to data published in JAMA.Researchers evaluated 4,253 ...

The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages of 40 and 79. They found that in those aged 60 or younger, mechanical ...

Frequency and Significance of Intravascular Hemolysis Before and After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis, The American Journal of Cardiology, 121, 1 ...

"Through the Swedish Cardiac Surgery Register (which is part of the SWEDEHEART register) we identified more than 5,000 patients who received a mechanical aortic valve in Sweden between 2003 and 2018.

Source Reference: Bowdish ME, et al "Bioprosthetic vs mechanical aortic valve replacement in patients 40-75 years" J Am Coll Cardiol 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.01.013.