Repair of the mitral or aortic valve usually involves remodeling of the valve tissue to make it smaller or less redundant (valvular “plastic surgery”), and is most often reinforced with a synthetic ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

By group, procedural success and freedom from LVOT obstruction (LVOT mean gradient > 50 mm Hg), the primary efficacy endpoint ...

New data from a large, international registry showed balloon-assisted anterior mitral leaflet modification (BATMAN) was safe, ...

Surgical revision after percutaneous mitral valve repair with a clip: initial multicenter experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Dec;80(6):2338-42.

Mitral annular disjunction in mitral valve prolapse with mitral regurgitation was tied to a threefold increase in long-term ...

A fibrous ring secures it to the walls of the left ... and in three months it will be as strong as it ever was. A mitral valve repair costs the NHS £10,000, including hospital stay, six-week ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as the world’s first transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s Sapien M3 secured CE mark for its Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system for transfemoral treatment of patients with mitral valve disease who are ineligible for surgery ...

Tricuspid valve regurgitation occurs when blood abnormally flows backwards from the right ventricle into the right atrium through a diseased tricuspid valve. Tricuspid regurgitation can be organic ...