Royal Oak resident Patrick O’Brien underwent the first single-port robotic mitral valve repair on June 30.

Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...

Early feasibility data from two studies of valve replacement presented at TCT 2021 show promise for novel transcatheter devices for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. The Intrepid (Medtronic) ...

The largest study to examine outcomes for patients treated outside a clinical trial setting with a minimally invasive procedure to repair a poorly functioning mitral valve in the heart found that the ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

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In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac surgical techniques for repairing a poorly functioning mitral valve, improvements in physical activity, ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

A major difficulty in the interpretation of these findings arises from the fact that closed commissurotomy often results in incomplete relief of obstruction, and it is difficult to determine whether ...