Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of valvular heart disease and affects around 10% of Americans over 75. It occurs when the mitral ...

Bhubaneswar: Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a leader in performing complex heart surgeries using minimally ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced today that it received CE mark approval for its Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system.

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

The replacement system is launching into markets already served by repair devices, namely Edwards’ Pascal and Abbott’s ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful ...

(Tricuspid or pulmonary valve disease, by itself, is an infrequent cause of right-sided heart failure.) Stenosis of the mitral valve (the valve that lies between the left atrium and left ventricle), a ...

HealthDay News — In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls ...

Severe mitral regurgitation (MR ... Data from an institutional echo database identified 1189 patients with adjudicated severe aortic stenosis (aortic valve area ≤1.0 cm 2), low transaortic gradients ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good function ... colleagues had performed the first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant.