Mitral valve surgery has changed considerably in the past decades and is now indicated mostly for pure or predominant mitral regurgitation. This is the result of the regression of rheumatic disease, ...

Valvuloplasty is now widely accepted as the best method of treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, but repair for rheumatic mitral valve disease is commonly believed to yield poorer results by ...

SALT LAKE CITY, June 05, 2025--Foldax secured approval for its TRIA mitral heart valve in India.

Abbott Park: Abbott has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system to treat people with mitral valve ...

Mitral valve prolapse (also known as click-murmur syndrome, Barlow's syndrome, balloon mitral valve, or floppy valve syndrome) With this defect, the mitral valve leaflets bulge and don't close ...

The complex nature of mitral valve disease and patients' specific needs and health conditions can pose challenges for surgical correction. For patients with severe MAC who are at high risk for ...

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 ...

Abbott announced the FDA approved its transcatheter mitral valve replacement system for patients with severe mitral annular calcification at high surgical risk for open-heart surgery or ineligible ...

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 claims ...

Abbott’s MitraClip system for mitral valve repair competes with Edwards Lifesciences’ Pascal repair device. The rivals are now set to compete in mitral valve replacement: Edwards won Europe’s CE mark ...

According to European guidelines, the gold standard for primary MR is mitral valve repair surgery if the patient is not at high or prohibitive risk (class I, level of evidence B), but TEER can be ...