Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

With new transcatheter options for the repair or replacement of tricuspid valves, the role and timing of repair — whether surgical or minimally invasive — is entering a time of transition.

CoreMedic announced that it picked up new funding in a Series B extension to support its transcatheter mitral valve repair ...

Background Mitral valve repair (MVr) is the gold standard treatment for degenerative mitral regurgitation, yet there is ...

The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to ... one has strong flaps called “leaflets” that control blood flow. Leaflets open to let blood move through the ...

Therefore, it was determined that a transcatheter mitral valve repair using the Mitraclip procedure was necessary. This is considered as a less invasive alternative to open heart surgery for such ...

This results essentially in “wide-open” tricuspid ... repair the tricuspid valve: Repair of the tricuspid valve in severe tricuspid regurgitation when mitral valve surgery is planned (class ...

In the years before open-heart surgery ... and had two previous attempts at mitral-valve repair. The operation was easier than in the animal laboratory, and she was returned to a converted ...

open commissurotomy and mitral valve replacement. This similar to PBMV in that the mitral valve is not directly visualized, and a balloon is used to dilate the stenotic mitral valve. The criteria ...

A 78-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation has successfully undergone the MitraClip procedure, marking a ...

The Heart Valve Devices Market is driven by advancements in aortic, mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonary valve technologies. It ...

Q. I have a leaky heart valve that may need surgery down the road. Can you tell me about heart-valve surgery in one of your columns? A. First, let’s explain briefly how the heart works.