Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transcatheter mitral valve repair improved clinical outcomes in patients with HF across all quartiles of mitral ...

For patients with failing bioprosthetic surgical mitral valves, the transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure provides early outcomes similar to those seen with repeat surgical replacement, ...

Mitral Stenosis[MS] is the narrowing of the mitral valve causing hindrance to the blood flow. The normal mitral valve orifice is about 4 to 6 cm 2. When this area becomes less than 2 cm 2, a pressure ...

Patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) who were left with high gradients after a MitraClip procedure were not inherently at a disadvantage in their subsequent clinical outcomes, according ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with pre-existing atrial fibrillation who underwent percutaneous mitral valve repair and had a mitral ...

In a comparison of mechanical prosthetic vs bioprosthetic mitral valves among patients 50 to 69 years of age undergoing mitral valve replacement, there was no significant difference in survival at 15 ...

Thus, the pattern of the resolution of pulmonary vascular disease after mitral-valve surgery is not clear. Furthermore, the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass and the characteristics of the ...

What is a Prosthetic Heart Valve? A prosthetic heart valve is an artificial device surgically implanted into the heart to replace a heart valve that has become damaged. The human heart has four valves ...