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 ...

Aortic-valve disease severe enough to require definitive surgical treatment at the time of mitral-valve replacement was present in 1 patient with mitral regurgitation in whom both the mitral and ...

If a valve, such as the aortic or mitral valve, is diseased or faulty, it may require repair or, sometimes, replacement if ...

Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for ...

Surgical repair decreased MR more than ... have shown great success in the treatment of mitral stenosis, as well as for aortic and pulmonary valve replacements (e.g., SAPIEN [Edwards, CA, USA ...

In this setting, concurrent disease of the mitral valve is almost always ... According to one large series, if aortic valve replacement is not performed, patients presenting with dyspnea have ...

associate director of Aortic Valve Interventions and associate director of Interventional Cardiology Research. In 2023, UCLA received the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award from the ...

SGMC Health recently achieved the successful completion of its first transcarotid access Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons kicks off a fire response fund with a $100,000 donation. One surgeon called the upcoming ...

The global market for heart valve repair and replacement devices is projected to rise by $2.58b by 2028 at a compound annual growth rate of 7.08%, said Technavio.