LONDON, England—A new analysis is emphasizing the prognostic significance of residual tricuspid regurgitation (TR) following mitral valve-in-valve procedures, with investigators showing that those ...

Serotonin can impact the mitral valve of the heart and potentially accelerate a cardiac condition known as degenerative mitral regurgitation, according to a new study. Serotonin can impact the mitral ...

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.

Song HK, Grab JD, O'Brien SM, Welke KF, Edwards F, Ungerleider RM. Gender differences in mortality after mitral valve operation: evidence for higher mortality in perimenopausal women. Ann Thorac Surg ...

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UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in Central Pa. today announced that its doctors treated a patient using the Half Moon Medical transcatheter mitral repair technology (Half Moon TMVr System). This ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In two forms of severe mitral valve disease with high rates of mortality and limited treatment options, multicenter trials with novel transcatheter devices produced what experts ...

Their findings on the condition called degenerative mitral regurgitation were published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), representing the largest study to ...

• Mitral valve repair remains a feasible option for appropriately selected rheumatic heart disease (RHD) patients requiring reintervention after prior percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy (PMBC) ...