Edwards Lifesciences has claimed an FDA approval for its Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system—marking the ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—A minimally invasive approach to mitral valve repair is no better than a conventional sternotomy for improving physical function at 12 weeks, the UK Mini Mitral trial has found. In ...

Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be ...

Dr. Siddharth, usually referred to as Dr. Sidd, decided to repair and not replace Baer’s valve. He used an innovative technique called PVL closure to place a catheter in a small vein in the patient’s ...

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 ...

During what has been a rollercoaster-like pattern for more than a decade, market expectations for transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) devices are continuing to follow an upward trajectory in ...

While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...

Mitral valve disease is when the heart’s mitral valve stops functioning correctly. This can lead to blood not flowing around the body correctly and cause several health complications. The mitral valve ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) over the long term is much more common in patients who have undergone mitral valve (MV) replacement surgery than in those treated with MV repair or who have a moderate risk ...