Led by Daniel Won, BS (Northwestern Medicine), and published recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the retrospective ...

Patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve repair or replacement (mini-MVR) have similar outcomes as patients undergoing conventional surgery and also experience shorter hospital stays and ...

An innovative mitral valve replacement procedure shows promise for high-risk patients in a new University of Miami Miller School of Medicine study led by Joseph Lamelas, M.D., chief and program ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Heart valve innovation has made polymer valves a reality, with one such device boasting good 1-year outcomes in a small single-arm study. Adults who received the Tria device for ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new valve was associated with a lower rate of death or disabling stroke within ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...

The overall mortality risk from an open-heart mitral valve surgery is about 11%, which is about one in nine people based on ...