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The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle. Mitral valve regurgitation happens when the valve does not close properly and blood flows back into the atrium from ...

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Ali N. Zaidi and W. Aaron Kay from Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — Transcatheter mitral valve repair may reduce the burden of ventricular tachyarrhythmia in older adults, ...

Among women of reproductive age who have bioprosthetic valves (BPVs), structural dysfunction is common and increases risk for cardiac events in pregnancy compared with normally functioning BPVs, ...

Among patients with heart failure who have mitral regurgitation due to left ventricular dysfunction, the prognosis is poor. Transcatheter mitral-valve repair may improve their clinical outcomes. At 78 ...

Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has ...

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

For patients suffering from heart valve or aortic insufficiency, the only solution currently available is open-heart surgery to replace the valve. Unfortunately, the five- to six-hour operation is too ...