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

Edwards Lifesciences announced today that it received CE mark approval for its Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system.

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

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 ...

At first she was tempted to explore a walk-through model of the human heart, but instead she went to the Hall of North America where an attendant was explaining the difference between poisonous ...

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 ...

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Many patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation are not suitable candidates for surgery or transcatheter repair. For transcatheter mitral valve replacement ... Class III/IV New York Heart ...