Our multidisciplinary cardiovascular team collaborates on mitral valve repair, transcatheter technologies, mitral valve replacement, and follow-up treatment so patients can get all their care for ...

The mitral valve is also known as the bicuspid valve. This is one of the heart’s four valves that help prevent blood from flowing backward as it moves through the heart. Read on to learn more about ...

Primary mitral regurgitation results from actual disease of the mitral valve apparatus. The mitral valve leaflets, annulus, papillary muscles and chordae tendinae must interact properly for the mitral ...

The mitral valve, so named because of its similarity to a bishop’s miter, has five important structural elements: 1) the mitral annulus, 2) the mitral valve leaflets, 3) the commissures, 4) chordae ...

The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle. Mitral regurgitation occurs when the mitral valve leaks blood back into the left atrium. A person’s ...

Doctors classify mitral valve regurgitation into four progressive stages. Symptoms typically don’t appear until the final stages but monitoring and treatment in earlier stages may help slow ...