Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

Very early results with a minimally invasive chordal replacement procedure suggest that the beating-heart, echo-guided procedure may emerge as another option for treating degenerative mitral valve ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—Moderate or severe mitral regurgitation present before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and moderate to severe paravalvular aortic regurgitation after the procedure ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the Sapien 3 THV (Edwards Lifesciences) approval indication to include transcatheter "replacement" of failed bioprosthetic valves in ...

Patient will be placed under general anesthesia. An endotracheal tube will be inserted into the patient’s windpipe and connected to a ventilator to assist the patient’s breathing. Another probe will ...

- New enhancements to Abbott's Epic valve – the most widely used mitral tissue heart valve in the U.S. and globally – can improve implantation and allow compatibility for future transcatheter valve ...

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 ...

(Reuters Health) - People who need a heart valve replaced often face a dilemma: should they have a mechanical valve made of graphite or a biological valve derived from a cow or pig? A new study ...

The valves in your heart keep the blood flowing in only one direction. When a heart valve isn’t working, the blood flows in the wrong direction, making your heart work harder and reducing blood flow ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...