The replacement system is launching into markets already served by repair devices, namely Edwards’ Pascal and Abbott’s ...

Mitral Valve Stenosis: The valve becomes too narrow ... For more severe cases, options include: Prioritizing Heart Health ...

Blood enters the left ventricle through the mitral valve and leaves through the aortic valve. A stenotic valve is a valve opening that has gotten smaller and is partially obstructing blood flow. In ...

Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of valvular heart disease and affects around 10% of Americans over 75. It occurs when the mitral ...

The condition is more common in women and younger patients with valve disorder and can, in the worst case, lead to sudden cardiac arrest. Mitral annular disjunction, MAD, is a heart abnormality in ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery.

Bhubaneswar: The Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) is leading the way in Odisha by offering complex heart ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as ...

The mitral valve was normal. Comment. The squeaking quality in a predominantly apical murmur led to a diagnosis of aortic stenosis in addition to coronary and hypertensive heart disease.

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good ... had performed the first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant.

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females. A study led by bioengineers at the University of ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet ...