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ST. LOUIS — Dr. Scally, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explains mitral valve disease, a condition that affects the mitral valve, which controls ...

When any disease process decreases the mitral valve area, mitral stenosis (MS) develops. As mitral stenosis progresses, increased left atrial pressure is required to maintain stroke volume.

Here, we speak to a surgeon about the procedure. The chief symptom of mitral valve dysfunction is breathlessness and severe fatigue, and often patients have palpitations from an abnormal heart rhythm.

In the case of mitral valve dysfunction, the result is a leakage of blood backward through in between the valve leaflets into the left atrium instead of fully flowing onwards to the ventricle.

MR occurs either due to disease involving the mitral valve apparatus, known as primary MR (or “organic” MR), or due to dilation of the mitral valve annulus associated with impaired left ...

He had patients in the hospital in the terminal stages of heart failure with mitral-valve disease and urged us to change our plan to early human implantation. Our Professor of Surgery, J.

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Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

The chordae tendineae (CT), often referred to as the “heart strings,” are thin, tendinous structures that connect the heart ...