Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who received transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, mitral valve surgery was associated with risks ...

Recent findings may be relevant to discussions with patients and their families about the pros and cons of cardiac surgery.

Among patients who experience failure of their bioprosthetic mitral valves or annuloplasty rings, and are at too high of a risk for another surgery, a secondary procedure to implant a transcatheter ...

Findings from a published case series research letter by the Henry Ford Health Structural Heart Disease team show that severe mitral stenosis, due to a build-up of calcium deposits in the mitral valve ...

In symptomatic patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) at high surgical risk, transcatheter valve repair and surgery result in similarly high rates of survival, according to a study published ...

An innovative mitral valve replacement procedure shows promise for high-risk patients in a new University of Miami Miller School of Medicine study led by Joseph Lamelas, M.D., chief and program ...

A new study found that older patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than those who received medical management alone, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients who had mitral valve surgery but also tricuspid regurgitation or tricuspid annular dilation, ...

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 starting the surgery?

The number of patients that need heart valve surgery is steadily increasing; however, the majority of available risk-prediction models are tailored for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery ...

A group of researchers led by Professor Yoshiki SAWA of the Cardiovascular Group in the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, succeeded in beating-heart surgery to repair a mitral valve. They ...

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial, which ...