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.

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

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

Interv Cardiol. 2014;6(6):557-567. Finally, the number of transcatheter mitral valve replacement technologies has grown given the success of transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Commercially ...

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 ...

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

Narayana Superspeciality Hospital has successfully performed a unique dual surgery: a Mitral Valve Replacement combined with ...

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 ...

The RESHAPE-HF2 trial aimed to settle the debate initiated by the conflicting COAPT and MITRA-FR trials, however, it did not clarify the role of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in heart failure.

The risk associated with mitral valve repair in asymptomatic patients seems to be quite low. In all three series, watchful waiting was associated with subsequent development of criteria for ...

Patients were randomized 1:1 to mitral TEER or surgical mitral valve therapy (mitral valve repair or replacement at the surgeon's discretion). In total, 210 patients were randomized from 16 ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has awarded Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute a three-star rating for its care and outcomes for patients with mitral valve replacement and repair. This is its ...