Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

Early feasibility data from two studies of valve replacement presented at TCT 2021 show promise for novel transcatheter devices for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. The Intrepid (Medtronic) ...

The largest study to examine outcomes for patients treated outside a clinical trial setting with a minimally invasive procedure to repair a poorly functioning mitral valve in the heart found that the ...

Leaflet modification technique developed to prevent LVOT obstruction ...

Peter C. Block, M.D., F.A.C.C.; Athena Poppas, M.D., F.A.C.C. While all patients had moderate (3+) to severe (4+) MR at baseline, 64% of patients discharged with a clip had MR ≤2 after 1 month, which ...

For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical approach ...

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Panayotis Vardas, M.D., was recently featured on UAB’s MedCast Podcast to discuss the causes and treatment options for degenerative valve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 30 days, a group of 15 patients who underwent transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement for ...

A spirited debate on Sunday revolved around the question of whether MitraClip should be offered to immediate-surgical-risk patients with primary mitral regurgitation (MR) and optimal anatomy for the ...

With a green light from the FDA, Abbott is scaling up its replacement mitral and aortic valve portfolio to epic proportions—or, more specifically, to Epic Plus proportions. The upgraded edition of the ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...