The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Abbott's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system for individuals with mitral valve disease. This device ...

The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle. Mitral regurgitation occurs when the mitral valve leaks blood back into the left atrium.

The patients were assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either transcatheter mitral-valve repair and guideline-recommended medical therapy (device group) or medical therapy alone (control group). The three ...

When a heart valve isn’t working, the blood flows in the wrong direction, making your heart work harder and reducing blood flow to your body. Mitral and aortic valve disorders are the most ...

Cardiac Dimensions has secured $53m in a Series E funding round to support its ongoing pivotal trial assessing the company’s mitral valve repair device. The round was led by investment ...

Interv Cardiol. 2014;6(6):557-567. Finally, the number of transcatheter mitral valve replacement technologies has grown given the success of transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Commercially ...

Cardiac surgeons at Yale New Haven Hospital have performed 200 robotic-assisted mitral valve procedures with a 100 percent success rate, meaning that no procedures were converted to an open surgery.

There are no exercise restrictions for people with mitral valve prolapse. However, they should avoid the same unhealthy lifestyle practices that apply to everyone, including eating non-nutritious ...

11 The hemoptysis subsequently was completely relieved by the emergency insertion of a Starr–Edwards prosthesis to replace a severely stenosed mitral valve. A 23-year-old man had no antecedent ...

Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with a mechanical mitral valve, underwent replacement of the artificial valve with a living donor mitral valve through a partial heart ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Corewell Health is being nationally recognized for excellence in heart valve repair. The hospital in Grand Rapids was awarded the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award.