Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among those requiring mitral valve surgery, Black patients were less likely to undergo a minimally invasive ...

PHOENIX, AZ—Clinical outcomes for patients treated with a mitral valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure have continued to get better in the wake of US Food and Drug Administration approval for high-risk ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...

Seattle-based UW Medicine Heart Institute cardiologist performed a first-of-its-kind procedure — retrieving and replacing a clip device from a patient’s mitral valve with only a catheter. Previously, ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...

Edwards Lifesciences has claimed an FDA approval for its Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system—marking the ...

Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD, completed his 900th robotic heart surgery in December.  Robotic procedures that Dr. Liao and his team perform include mitral valve repair and replacement, tricuspid valve repair ...

A keyhole surgery procedure for mitral valve disease has been rolled out across the NHS this week after a decade-long delay due to funding struggles. The procedure, trans-catheter edge-to-edge repair ...

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.

Patients who undergo a transcatheter mitral valve intervention during a hospital stay that also includes TAVI fare worse over the short term than those who only receive an aortic intervention, an ...

A debate at the 25 th annual TCT Conference on the merits of robotic surgery for the treatment of mitral valve disease actually came to more common ground than conflict. While the patient perceptions ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Transcatheter and surgical mitral valve procedures alike demonstrated a learning curve in studies reported here that some said has implications for the organization of these services ...