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 ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research has found.

CoreMedic announced that it picked up new funding in a Series B extension to support its transcatheter mitral valve repair ...

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 ...

Reason for decision Anticipate the topic will be of importance to patients, carers, professionals, commissioners and the health of the public to ensure clinical benefit is realised, inequalities in ...

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.

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common disease ... No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Percutaneous valve interventions have shown great success in the ...

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 ...

We describe a case of percutaneous transjugular TVR with a 22-mm valve ... her mean tricuspid transvalvular gradient was 16 mm Hg, with mild tricuspid regurgitation. Internal valve diameter was ...