Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

The tricuspid valve is anatomically complex. It’s often called the “forgotten valve” because of its position in the back of ...

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For some patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib, AF) and valvular heart disease (VHD), direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) ...

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With heart valve disease on the rise in India, cardiac experts at Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai (AHNM) have highlighted the ...

Overall, Edwards enjoys a great deal of financial flexibility that would allow for more substantial acquisitions, if those opportunities were to arise. Edwards Lifesciences has come to dominate ...

Q. I have a leaky heart valve that may need surgery down the road. Can you tell me about heart-valve surgery in one of your columns? A. First, let’s explain briefly how the heart works.

This valve is attached to the heart in two separate ... who had two previous closed mitral commissurotomies for calcific mitral stenosis. Ralph Berg, who started open-heart surgery in Spokane ...

95% CI 1.99 to 2.77), while confirming that increasing mortality associated with MR severity persisted in the presence of aortic stenosis. To our knowledge, this is the largest study of (reported) MR ...