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 ...

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 ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

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 ...

Polares Medical has secured $50m through a Series C financing round to further support the development of its novel cardiac ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, IL—There are at least 26 novel devices vying to prove their mettle in the transcatheter mitral valve repair space: several targeting leaflet coaptation, some focused on the mitral annulus, ...

Surgical repair decreased MR more than MitraClip ®. In 12-month follow-up, 20% of MitraClip patients required surgery for mitral dysfunction versus 2% in surgical patients. Both groups had ...

Surgery is thought to be life-saving for people who have ischemic mitral regurgitation, but it is unknown whether surgical repair or surgical replacement of the mitral valve is the better procedure.