In 11 the abnormality was not accompanied by significant cardiac disability. In three, severe mitral insufficiency required mitral valve replacement. Pathological examination of the excised mitral ...

Traditional open-heart surgery would require a more extended hospital stay and a more difficult recovery period, hindering ...

Thermal energy has been utilized to shrink collagen tissue within the annulus, leaflet and chordal apparatus of the mitral valve. [20] Early animal work has demonstrated that naturally occurring ...

[11] With these advances, robotic mitral valve surgery may become a procedure worth adopting due to the growing population of patients demanding the procedure. It is possible that robotic mitral ...

Boston Scientific has led a $175 million funding round for the mitral valve developer 4C Medical, which is currently working on an international pivotal study. The series D proceeds represent a ...

Many patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation are not suitable candidates for surgery or transcatheter repair. For transcatheter mitral valve replacement, a common contraindication is the ...

The largest markets for these devices include aortic and mitral valve replacements. The transcatheter tricuspid valve device market is both newer and smaller, mostly due to the lower number of ...

In 2018, the first two randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of edge-to-edge transcatheter mitral valve repair versus guideline-directed medical therapy in HF (Percutaneous Repair with the MitraClip ...

Mario Castillo-Sang, who specializes in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery at the hospital. Patients who participated in the mini event donned race bibs and then proceeded to accomplish a lap ...