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

February is American Heart Month, so I felt it was finally time to share my personal heart story. My paternal line has a long ...

Anyone who meets Katie Eddington would likely consider her the picture of optimal health. When she studied sports medicine at ...

Mitral leaflet thickening, calcification and prolapse accounted for the majority (>90%) of mitral leaflet pathology observed in both men and women, with mitral valve prolapse more frequently ...

After a series of tests, the cardiologist diagnosed her with a mitral valve prolapse, but she was later informed that the condition was a misdiagnosis.

Pelvic organ prolapse affects one in ten women over 50, says the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. It can be caused by a number of factors: ageing (as the muscles lose their ...

As the number of procedures is expected to rise, a consistent methodology to characterize the mitral valve and identify the most suitable TMVR device for each patient is of paramount importance.

Background: Grade 2+ residual mitral ... aortic valve closure and was selected to perform MVN analysis. To define the annulus geometry, we assessed the anterior–posterior (AP) diameters; ...

The aim of this research was to assess sex differences in the etiology of surgical mitral valve disease and whether those differences have persisted over ... Our study cohort included 23 806 unique ...