Mitral valve repair is one of the most challenging heart operations ... "He wanted us to come over there to have the surgery.

An innovative, minimally invasive procedure is reducing the risk faced by patients with heart valve disease and improving ...

For patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral regurgitation (MR), mitral annular disjunction (MAD) is associated ...

a leaking mitral valve is tolerated well by the heart for a long period of time and may only become evident when the body becomes stressed by another illness. Whenever possible, we try to repair ...

The first-of-its-kind Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 TMVR system uses a nitinol dock to anchor the replacement valve in the ...

They also showed that mitral-valve replacement was possible with a ... In the years before open-heart surgery, Hufnagel developed such a device to palliate aortic regurgitation in the form of ...

A medical team imported and modified the valve in a “world-first” and carried out pioneering keyhole surgery on Julia ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as ...

Two-year secondary endpoints were recurrent hospitalizations for heart failure and freedom from death due to any cause or the need for tricuspid valve surgery or another valve-repair procedure.

Two state-of-the-art new technologies for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacements is expanding advanced heart care with ...

Blood enters the left ventricle through the mitral valve and leaves through the aortic valve. A stenotic valve is a valve opening that has gotten smaller and is partially obstructing blood flow. In ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet ...