More than 60,000 people die from heart valve disease (HVD) in the U.S. each year, according to the American Heart Association ...

Corewell Health was awarded the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award, one of only 24 centers in the country.

ic.ac.uk According to Walmsley, 1 it was Andreas Vesalius who suggested the picturesque term “mitral” to describe the left atrioventricular valve owing to its resemblance to a plan view of the ...

The device has evolved from one aimed at just functional MR to a broader HF therapy. EMPOWER will provide more insights.

High-volume centres achieve excellent long-term survival and low reoperation rates in mitral valve repair—key findings ...

Patients with arrhythmogenic mitral valve prolapse syndrome are at increased risk for life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, but studies have been limited by small sample sizes. We sought to ...

Dr. Moby Rehman is a U.K.-board certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a special interest in mitral valve repair, minimally ...

Rockwall resident Marie Cruzet reviews high-definition images of patients’ hearts so she understands the mechanics of every ...

February is National Heart Health Awareness Month and during this month, The Hospitals of Providence is raising awareness of ...

Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...