Three girls with major heart problems are thriving after one received a donor heart and then gave healthy valves from her original heart to two other girls. The “domino” heart surgeries by a team at ...

Corewell Health is being nationally recognized for excellence in heart valve repair. The hospital in Grand Rapids was awarded the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award. It is one of 24 centers ...

Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Scally with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explained Mitral Valve Disease, a ...

In a medical breakthrough, Duke Health in Durham used parts of a donated heart from one girl to help save two others. Now, ...

Doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls across North Carolina. The procedure became possible after ...

ic.ac.uk According to Walmsley, 1 it was Andreas Vesalius who suggested the picturesque term “mitral” to describe the left atrioventricular valve owing to its resemblance to a plan view of the ...

The patient underwent emergent surgical mitral valve replacement. Pathological evaluation of the damaged valve was confirmed to be secondary to COVID-19 infection. The histopathological findings were ...

Dr. Rakesh Suri, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Corewell Health, shares details about a groundbreaking robotic mitral valve repair program that was launched at Corewell Health William Beaumont ...