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 ...

DALLAS, TX—Mitral-valve repair results in similar left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling and survival outcomes compared with mitral-valve replacement in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation ...

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 ...

Background The use of artificial chords for mitral valve prolapse during minimally invasive mitral valve repair (MIMVR) has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transcatheter mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients at high surgical risk. The system is ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that compared to mitral valve repair, mitral valve replacement results in a lower rate of heart failure and fewer hospitalizations for ...

Bioprosthetic valves lasts about 10-15 years. These are usually obtained from animals or human organ donors. Tissue valves seem to improve the patient’s hemodynamics, but tend to stiffen in 10-15 ...

Mitral valve repair can be done in two ways. “Balloon Valvuloplasty” is a cardiac catheterization procedure mostly performed for patients with Mitral Stenosis. An interventional cardiologist does this ...

Edwards Lifesciences has received Europe’s CE mark for its transcatheter mitral valve replacement system, Sapien M3, the company said Monday. The device is designed for people with symptomatic mitral ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as the world’s first transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

Over the past 5 years, mitral valve repair has been a far more popular choice of treatment than mitral valve replacement for patients with severe ischaemic mitral regurgitation. This trend exists ...

In the first multicentre, randomized trial to compare undersized annuloplasty versus mitral replacement in severe ischaemic mitral regurgitation (MR), higher recurrence of clinically significant MR ...