Routine use of devices to prevent cerebral emboli during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) did not prevent ...

A device designed to remove embolic material-fragments of tissue that can be released into the bloodstream during ...

Experts are dismayed, disappointed, and confused, but many say this isn’t the end of cerebral embolic protection for TAVI.

Overall, there was a “modest” decline in use of embolic protection in the year after the PROTECTED TAVR results were released ...

Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices are designed to stop this debris reaching the brain, and they have been suggested as a solution to reduce stroke risk for TAVI patients. However, evidence ...

Risk for symptomatic embolism can be predicted via echocardiographic vegetation features in patients with infective endocarditis.

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 ...

Researchers have found in a new study that oral anticoagulants OAC-naive patients experienced a smaller increase in stroke or ...