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 ...

The replacement system is launching into markets already served by repair devices, namely Edwards’ Pascal and Abbott’s ...

Carvedilol, because of its pharmacological action, is expected to reduce the pressure gradient associated with DLVOTO ... in a representative case of systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve ...

HealthDay News — In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls ...

Severe mitral regurgitation (MR ... echo database identified 1189 patients with adjudicated severe aortic stenosis (aortic valve area ≤1.0 cm 2), low transaortic gradients (mean gradient <40 mm Hg), ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is present in 30-40% of patients presenting for mitral valve surgery. In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased ...

In addition, we searched PubMed with keywords related to “TEER” or “Mitral valve repair” along with “Takotsubo ... The mean trans-mitral pressure gradient measured 2.5 mmHg. During the 215-min ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and congenital aortic stenosis are two types of heart defects that may be present at birth. They can occur separately or together. In some cases, bicuspid aortic valve ...