A novel transcatheter mitral valve replacement system designed for left atrial fixation rather than subvalvular fixation ...

Researchers investigating a novel device to repair the mitral heart valve report 100 percent procedural success in a safety and performance study, the first such study done in humans. The image-guided ...

Led by Daniel Won, BS (Northwestern Medicine), and published recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the retrospective ...

The mitral valve, which connects the upper and lower left-side chambers of the human heart, is one of the many pieces of the heart critical to its proper function. Mitral valve prolapse is common, and ...

LVOT-sparing device designed for broader applicability of transcatheter mitral valve repla ...

Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

NEW ORLEANS — In a clinical trial comparing repeat mitral valve replacement surgery with a transcatheter valve-in-valve approach for dysfunctional bioprosthetic mitral valves, results linked the less ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) with the novel Sapien M3 device (Edwards Lifesciences) is associated with low rates of adverse clinical outcomes and sustained ...

Results from a new analysis show that patients with mitral annular calcification (MAC) who undergo minimally invasive mitral ...