Doctors at Oklahoma Heart Institute are now offering a newly FDA-approved heart valve replacement that requires no open-heart ...

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 ...

Mitral valve surgery is used to treat both primary and secondary MR. Surgery, whether mitral valve repair or replacement, has been the standard of care in treating patients with primary (degenerative) ...

Manipal: Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, successfully performed transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), a minimally ...

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 ...

Dr. Robert Michler answers the question: 'Replacing Mitral Valve During Bypass?' — -- Question: I have a 'leaky' mitral valve. My doctor wants me to have my valve replaced while I am having my ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has reported new data supporting its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.