Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

For Heart Month, Lynne Currie, the Baptist Heart Valve Coordinator, explained what Mitral Valve Regurgitation is, and what ...

Heart sounds are one tool providers use to assess heart health. Learn about systolic, diastolic, and S1 to S4 heart sounds in ...

However, little is known, on the effect of such procedures on pre-existing tricuspid regurgitation (TR ... Indeed, ASD closure and pulmonic valve replacement (PVR), either surgical or percutaneous, ...

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...

Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised ... In severe symptomatic primary MR, valve intervention is considered.8 However, there is less ...

The left heart pump consists of the left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, and aorta. Its job is to pump oxygen-rich blood out to the body’s tissues. Blood returning to the heart ...

In December 2006, investigators reported echocardiographic and hemodynamic measurements after percutaneous ... the area of mitral regurgitation, producing a double orifice mitral valve.

Our patient, an 84-year-old man with no significant risk factors and no history of smoking has been under medical care since 2012 for mild-to-moderate mitral regurgitation ... successful outcome of ...

MR: Mitral regurgitation; NYHA ... No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Percutaneous valve interventions have shown great success in the treatment of mitral ...

particularly in the case of aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. In the last years, the tricuspid valve has also been the focus of these percutaneous techniques for several reasons: (1) tricuspid ...

Background: We aimed to investigate the anatomical relationship of the coronary sinus (CS) and the mitral valve annulus (MVA) in patients with or without functional mitral regurgitation ... might ...