Compared with usual care, a system of electronic provider notification more often enabled patients diagnosed with severe ...

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 ...

Forty-three patients with suspected restenosis of the mitral valve are reported. Forty of these occurred in a series of 672 mitral commissurotomies. A significant degree of recurrent stenosis was ...

"The lower mortality risk and strong valve performance is meaningful for clinicians in evaluating treatment approaches that prioritize the overall well-being of patients." Patients with severe aortic ...

Data shows, versus surgery, the Evolut™ transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR ... to surgery for patients with severe aortic stenosis, regardless of their surgical risk," said Michael ...

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 ...

The aortic valve is a door ... problem where the pressure gradient between the heart and aorta increases above a mean of 40 mm Hg, which is called severe aortic stenosis. However, due to various ...

Current guidelines recommend surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis and unfavorable iliofemoral access. Transcarotid transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Its total funding is more than $200 million. Cardiac Dimensions is targeting a condition called mitral valve regurgitation, which involves the leakage of blood through the heart’s 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 ...