US-based Protaryx Medical has completed a first-in-human trial of its transseptal puncture (TSP) device. The company’s trial enrolled five patients, with the TSP procedure carried out using its ...

CMC’s innovations continued into the 1990s, with India’s first carotid bifurcation stenting and the world’s first trans-septal carotid stenting and trans-jugular mitral valvuloplasty in 1996.

The Clark County Medical Examiner said an investigation revealed the 16-year-old suffered sudden cardiac death due to fatal dysrhythmia and myxomatous mitral valve disease. According to the Mayo ...

Nitinol is commonly used in replacement heart valve frames, but that’s not how the new Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system uses nitinol’s shape memory ...

This study aimed to assess impact of atrioventricular valve (AVV) regurgitation onset, timing of AVV repair (AVVr), ventricular morphology, and era effect on AVVr outcomes in a single ventricle ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Double orifice mitral valve (DOMV) is a rare congenital anomaly of the subvalvar mitral valve ...

cshs.org Background: Mitral annular calcification has been associated with various systemic and cardiac diseases, with a higher prevalence in women and patients over 70. A possible association between ...

by Dr Wern Yew Ding, Dr Unni Krishnan and Dr Robert Cooper ...

(Tricuspid or pulmonary valve disease, by itself, is an infrequent cause of right-sided heart failure.) Stenosis of the mitral valve (the valve that lies between the left atrium and left ventricle), a ...

You might have septal anatomy that is better suited to surgery. You might need more work done on the heart, like repair of the mitral valve. In these cases, septal myectomy is preferable. What are the ...