Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who received transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, mitral valve surgery was associated with risks ...

Influencer Leah Jay has revealed she will undergo emergency heart surgery while pregnant, after doctors identified serious complications making her pregnancy high risk.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has developed and launched a new risk calculator to estimate the risk of mitral valve repair for patients with mitral valve prolapse and degenerative primary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transcatheter mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients at high surgical risk. The system is ...

Patients with moderate tricuspid regurgitation (TR) undergoing surgery for mitral valve disease have a significant improvement in TR grade, according to the results of a new study. In early ...

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For patients with failing bioprosthetic surgical mitral valves, the transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure provides early outcomes similar to those seen with repeat surgical replacement, ...

A new study found that older patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than those who received medical management alone, ...

It involves less pain, less bleeding, and there’s lower risk of infection,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sanjay Tripathi.

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial, which ...