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

Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of valvular heart disease and affects around 10% of Americans over 75. It occurs when the mitral ...

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 ...

The modern explosion in medical memoirs is often attributed to Henry Marsh, the neurosurgeon whose instant classic, Do No Harm, was published in 2014. Yet 5 years earlier, another British surgeon, ...

also known as mitral valve prolapse, is a condition in which the heart valve leaflets become abnormally stretchy and redundant, causing them to bulge back into the left atrium during heartbeats ...

Perspective from Gilbert H.L. Tang, MD, MSc, MBA CHICAGO — The first trial to evaluate use of an SGLT2 inhibitor in people undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement showed benefit with ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better. By Matt Richtel Many people use a smartwatch to monitor their cardiovascular ...

Introduction: The mitral valve annulus naturally adopts a saddle shape in systole, likely concentrating systolic stress on the commissures where fibrous trigones are located. This study hypothesized ...

Cardiac Dimensions is targeting a condition called mitral valve regurgitation, which involves the leakage of blood through the heart’s mitral valve during the contraction of the left ventricle.

Instead of getting rid of her original heart, doctors saved two healthy valves and transplanted them into two other children. One valve went to 14-year-old Margaret Van Bruggen, a cross-country runner ...