Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...
Early feasibility data from two studies of valve replacement presented at TCT 2021 show promise for novel transcatheter devices for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. The Intrepid (Medtronic) ...
For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical approach ...
Background The use of artificial chords for mitral valve prolapse during minimally invasive mitral valve repair (MIMVR) has ...
Edwards Lifesciences has bought Harpoon Medical in a $250 million deal. The takeover rounds out Edwards’ pitch for the transcatheter mitral valve disease market by giving it control of a technology to ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...
Peter C. Block, M.D., F.A.C.C.; Athena Poppas, M.D., F.A.C.C. While all patients had moderate (3+) to severe (4+) MR at baseline, 64% of patients discharged with a clip had MR ≤2 after 1 month, which ...
UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Panayotis Vardas, M.D., was recently featured on UAB’s MedCast Podcast to discuss the causes and treatment options for degenerative valve ...
Minimally invasive mitral valve repair is as safe and effective as conventional surgery, trial shows
In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac surgical techniques for repairing a poorly functioning mitral valve, improvements in physical activity, ...
Valve insufficiency or regurgitation happens more often in the mitral valve. When a valve leaks, the leaflets don’t close completely and some blood leaks backward rather than all of the blood flowing ...
Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...
Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after starting the surgery?
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