People having surgery to repair tight or leaking heart valves may receive a pacemaker more often than necessary—leading to a ...

In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased mortality and morbidity and this is also the case in patients in whom AF persists postoperatively.

For the first time in Mumbai, an elderly patient with heart valve disease underwent a double valve re-replacement with a ...

Fortis Hospital Bannerghatta Road successfully treated a 25-year-old African woman who had been suffering from complex and ...

In addition, before the development of prosthetic mitral-valve replacement, pure or predominant mitral regurgitation could not consistently be relieved by operation, and although it was clear that ...

A study from Abbott found that employing its cardiac valve repair implant during earlier phases of heart failure—when a patient’s leaky mitral valve is still considered to be functional ...

The patients were assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either transcatheter mitral-valve repair and guideline-recommended medical therapy (device group) or medical therapy alone (control group). The three ...

Freedom from AF at 6 months Maze group 87.2% vs 9.4% control group 0.0001 Freedom from AF at 12 months Maze group 93.6% vs 9.4% control group 0.0001 In-hospital mortality 3% in Maze group vs 3% ...

Mitral valve prolapse often requires making some lifestyle adjustments to manage your symptoms and prevent complications. Mitral valve prolapse occurs when the valve between your heart’s left ...

Anker et al, Transcatheter Valve Repair in Heart Failure with Moderate to Severe Mitral Regurgitation, New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2314328 ...