Over the past 5 years, mitral valve repair has been a far more popular choice of treatment than mitral valve replacement for patients with severe ischaemic mitral regurgitation. This trend exists ...

Surgery is thought to be life-saving for people who have ischemic mitral regurgitation, but it is unknown whether surgical repair or surgical replacement of the mitral valve is the better procedure.

The first RCT to compare valve-in-valve vs redo surgery reassures, especially for regions where rheumatic valve disease is prevalent.

Surgical valve repair for mitral regurgitation (MR) has been used for decades. Percutaneous approaches to mitral valve repair have been undergoing evaluation in trials over the last few years, and ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new ...

Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

Patient will be placed under general anesthesia. An endotracheal tube will be inserted into the patient’s windpipe and connected to a ventilator to assist the patient’s breathing. Another probe will ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

Patient will be placed under general anesthesia. An endotracheal tube will be inserted into the patient’s windpipe and connected to a ventilator to assist the patient’s breathing. Another probe will ...

Edwards Lifesciences has bought Harpoon Medical in a $250 million deal. The takeover rounds out Edwards’ pitch for the transcatheter mitral valve disease market by giving it control of a technology to ...