Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

The first RCT to compare valve-in-valve vs redo surgery reassures, especially for regions where rheumatic valve disease is prevalent.

Mitral valve surgery is used to treat both primary and secondary MR. Surgery, whether mitral valve repair or replacement, has been the standard of care in treating patients with primary (degenerative) ...

Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

Edwards Lifesciences has bought Harpoon Medical in a $250 million deal. The takeover rounds out Edwards’ pitch for the transcatheter mitral valve disease market by giving it control of a technology to ...

Patient will be placed under general anesthesia. An endotracheal tube will be inserted into the patient’s windpipe and connected to a ventilator to assist the patient’s breathing. Another probe will ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who underwent transcatheter mitral valve replacement for severe mitral regurgitation, 93% of ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

Over the past 5 years, mitral valve repair has been a far more popular choice of treatment than mitral valve replacement for patients with severe ischaemic mitral regurgitation. This trend exists ...