A group of researchers led by Professor Yoshiki SAWA of the Cardiovascular Group in the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, succeeded in beating-heart surgery to repair a mitral valve. They ...

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 ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new procedure at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is changing lives for people at high risk for heart surgery.

Lee Health is raising the bar for heart care in Southwest Florida, becoming the first health system in the region to offer robotic-assisted mitral valve repair using the state-of-the-art da Vinci ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Employing intravascular lithotripsy facilitated transcatheter mitral valve replacement in a patient with severe ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—A minimally invasive approach to mitral valve repair is no better than a conventional sternotomy for improving physical function at 12 weeks, the UK Mini Mitral trial has found. In ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has reported new data supporting its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.

Doctors at Oklahoma Heart Institute are now offering a newly FDA-approved heart valve replacement that requires no open-heart surgery, making Tulsa the first hospital in the region and the third in ...

Manipal: Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, successfully performed transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), a minimally ...

CONGENITAL mitral stenosis, sufficiently severe to cause recurrent heart failure and syncopal episodes in infancy, is rarely compatible with life beyond two years of age. 1 Except for 1 reported case ...

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 starting the surgery?