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 ...

Among patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) as well as concomitant tricuspid valve disease who have undergone surgical mitral valve repair, more than nine in 10 remain alive and free ...

LONDON — Opinions about the relative value of interventions to control mitral regurgitation secondary to heart failure might be altered by two large randomized trials. The RESHAPE-HF2 trial showed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

During what has been a rollercoaster-like pattern for more than a decade, market expectations for transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) devices are continuing to follow an upward trajectory in ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that compared to mitral valve repair, mitral valve replacement results in a lower rate of heart failure and fewer hospitalizations for ...

For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical approach ...

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 ...

A major difficulty in the interpretation of these findings arises from the fact that closed commissurotomy often results in incomplete relief of obstruction, and it is difficult to determine whether ...

Adults undergoing mitral valve surgery who have less than severe leakage of the tricuspid valve may benefit by having both valves repaired at the same time, including a decreased chance of severe ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...