Background Mitral valve repair (MVr) is the gold standard treatment for degenerative mitral regurgitation, yet there is ...

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 ...

The team, consisting of cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists and anesthesiologists, successfully performed the TMVI procedure (Transcatether mitral valve implantation procedure), implanting ...

When untreated, severe MR is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Mitral valve surgery is recommended in symptomatic patients and those with evidence of adverse left atrial or left ...

is noninferior to mitral valve (MV) surgery in patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation at 1 year. Patient selection is key for success of any surgical or percutaneous MV ...

Surgery is recommended upon dysfunction of the mitral valve with important stenosis or insufficiency, embolic events or when other types of tumors cannot be excluded regardless of the imaging method ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Rakesh M Suri, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; surir{at}ccf.org Contemporary ...

If you have heart valve replacement surgery, you will be prescribed a blood thinner (a.k.a. an anticoagulant) upon discharge from the hospital. Long-term blood thinner medication guidelines differ ...

However, there are key differences in the studies that make a 1:1 comparison difficult. For one, the patients in the RESHAPE-HF2 trial had less severe mitral valve regurgitation than did those in the ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons kicks off a fire response fund with a $100,000 donation. One surgeon called the upcoming ...