But you might be surprised how quick and easy it can be to get back up and running, if you ride ready with a puncture repair kit to hand. Especially useful when exploring unfamiliar lands ...

(A video showing the Carillon implantation procedure is at the end of this post.) A transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) clip implantation, for comparison, takes a few hours in the cath lab and ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, an estimated 10 percent of adults over the age of 75 have the most common type of leaky heart valve, known as mitral valve regurgitation ... surgical and nonsurgical ...

At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received the best available medical therapy plus a minimally invasive procedure using a clip to repair ...

This study aimed to investigate the clinical impact of transcatheter edge‐to‐edge repair in patients with CS ... The MitraClip was then adjusted perpendicular to the mitral valve and advanced into the ...

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 ...

Dr. Poppas: I'm Athena Pappas for CVN. I'm with Dr. Peter Block and we're talking about various approaches to percutaneous mitral valve repair. Peter, there are various types of valve pathology ...

Surgery is not recommended for the correction of secondary MR outside coronary artery bypass grafting. Percutaneous mitral valve repair (PMVR) with MitraClip implantation has recently evolved as a new ...

When considering the complexity of the mitral valve apparatus, it is useful to classify the transcatheter approaches according to the major structural abnormality that they address. 19 Unlike the ...