Heart valve disease treatment options like repair or replacement depend on valve type, severity, age and overall health.

Transcatheter aortic valves in the mitral position are linked to high technical success rate and fewer in-hospital deaths ...

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 ...

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

Vincora (NeoChord, Inc. d/b/a Vincora), a medical technology company developing transcatheter therapies for mitral valve repair, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Among patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) as well as concomitant tricuspid valve disease who have undergone surgical mitral valve repair, more than nine in 10 remain alive and free ...

A new computational study in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering uses a whole-heart model to show that transcatheter mitral ...

The largest study to examine outcomes for patients treated outside a clinical trial setting with a minimally invasive procedure to repair a poorly functioning mitral valve in the heart found that the ...

Two years ago, when she was just 28, Mia Cadua discovered that she had a heart condition called mitral valve prolapse, which, if it worsened, could be fatal. She had recently married, and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...

Early feasibility data from two studies of valve replacement presented at TCT 2021 show promise for novel transcatheter devices for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. The Intrepid (Medtronic) ...

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 ...