Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

A 78-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation has successfully undergone the MitraClip procedure, marking a significant advancement in minimally invasive heart care. The rare and complex ...

To treat severe mitral valve regurgitation, experts at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai rely on either the minimally ...

With new transcatheter options for the repair or replacement of tricuspid valves, the role and timing of repair — whether surgical or minimally invasive — is entering a time of transition.

For Heart Month, Lynne Currie, the Baptist Heart Valve Coordinator, explained what Mitral Valve Regurgitation is, and what ...

Notably, tricuspid-mitral surgeries were associated with ... Still, while the prevalence of moderate or severe tricuspid regurgitation is high, “very few of them get tricuspid valve surgery—less than ...

The tricuspid valve is anatomically complex. It’s often called the “forgotten valve” because of its position in the back of ...

THE Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) has become the first health facility in Gauteng to successfully ...

February is American Heart Month, so I felt it was finally time to share my personal heart story. My paternal line has a long ...

CoreMedic announced that it picked up new funding in a Series B extension to support its transcatheter mitral valve repair ...

Q. I have a leaky heart valve that may need surgery down the road. Can you tell me about heart-valve surgery in one of your columns? A. First, let’s explain briefly how the heart works.

The Gauteng Health Department hailed this procedure as a "game changer," significantly advancing heart valve therapy in both ...