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 ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Pat Zerfas wasn’t a candidate for open heart surgery. For 13 years, however, she has been dealing with a worsening heart condition that slowly and continuously lowered her quality of ...

About 1 in 15 people over the age of 65 have mitral valve prolapse, which can become life-threatening. People with the condition now have a non-surgical option that can restore proper blood flow.

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 ...

Cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart Institute recently performed a first-in-the-world procedure, detaching and retrieving a clip device from a patient's mitral valve and placing a replacement ...

Our multidisciplinary cardiovascular team collaborates on mitral valve repair, transcatheter technologies, mitral valve replacement, and follow-up treatment so patients can get all their care for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simple tasks such as cooking, cleaning and walking to the mailbox are not so simple for people with symptoms of severe mitral regurgitation, a condition that causes blood to leak backward into the ...

Patients with leaking tricuspid valves in a research trial saw improvements with a procedure that does not require a risky open-heart surgery. By Gina Kolata For the first time, patients with damaged ...

NEW YORK, May 25 (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 ...