cardiac valve replacement and valvuloplasty procedures, and treatment of head and neck cancers. The agency recognized that appropriate dental care may lessen the risk of morbidity and mortality ...

In patients with sarcoidosis, cardiac involvement is a crucial prognostic factor leading to severe cardiovascular events. Mitral regurgitation (MR) predisposes patients to drug‐refractory heart ...

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 ...

What is a patent foramen ovale? A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a small opening between the two upper chambers of the heart, the right and the left atrium. Normally, a thin membranous wall made up of ...

Secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) occurs despite structurally normal valve apparatus due to an underlying disease of the myocardium leading to disruption of the balance between tethering and closing ...

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 ...