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 ...

Dr. Rakesh Suri, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Corewell Health, shares details about a groundbreaking robotic mitral valve ...

For Heart Month, Lynne Currie, the Baptist Heart Valve Coordinator, explained what Mitral Valve Regurgitation is, and what ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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