Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An experimental minimally invasive technique developed by Abbott Laboratories to repair the most common type of heart valve problem appeared to be as durable as surgical repair ...

A team of interventional cardiologists from Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease recently became the first in the United States and the Western Hemisphere to repair a heart valve ...

ATLANTA - Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as ...

SEATTLE, Wash. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Over 85 million individuals in the U.S. currently suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease. Among that number, those 75 years old and above are at the ...

Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute cardiology team perform surgery on a patient with heart valve disease, using a newly, FDA-approved clip device. The device gives patients diagnosed with ...

(WNDU) - Over 85 million people in the U.S. currently suffer from some form of heart disease. Some of them are older than 75, meaning if they have to go under the knife, they could be at a higher risk ...

In June, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge began offering a new option to heart patients with leaky tricuspid heart valves, a condition that doctors previously had few tools to treat.

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge recently performed its first tricuspid valve clip repair, a new minimally invasive approach to treating a leaky tricuspid valve. Also known as ...