Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transcatheter mitral valve repair improved outcomes and symptoms in patients with moderate to severe mitral ...

Patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) often suffer from psycho-emotional symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, but after undergoing mitral valve repair surgery patients experience a ...

The study, published in the March 3, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that patients with an effective regurgitant orifice of 40 mm 2 or more have a significantly increased risk ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — An analysis of the STS/ACC TVT registry showed that successful transcatheter edge-to-edge repair ...

Myxomatous degeneration is the buildup of certain molecules in heart valve tissue, causing the valve to become loose or weak. Severe cases can lead to complications like heart failure. Myxomatous ...

Patients with mitral regurgitation face a dilemma of whether to undergo corrective surgery early, when they might have no or few symptoms, or wait until their condition worsens. Current guidelines ...

LONDON, England—A small, long-running randomized trial suggests that transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) with the MitraClip (Abbott) can achieve similar outcomes to surgery in patients who have ...

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LONDON — Opinions about the relative value of interventions to control mitral regurgitation secondary to heart failure might be altered by two large randomized trials. The RESHAPE-HF2 trial showed ...