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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They also showed that mitral-valve replacement was possible with a rigid ... Hufnagel developed such a device to palliate aortic regurgitation in the form of an acrylic tube implanted quickly ...

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

A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...

Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002. [33] There have ...

Due to premature closure of the mitral valve, the intensity of the ... Coronary angiography is indicated if surgical aortic valve replacement is planned, or if the patient has symptoms or risk ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease.