10 patients) using kinematics of the mitral valve annulus from systole to diastole extrapolated from computed tomography angiography. Results: Simulations revealed high stress near the anterolateral ...

Proceedings in the House of Lords have been disrupted after protesters and threw leaflets reading "No More Lords" and started shouting and singing. A group of around half a dozen people in the ...

The Carillon system is made of nitinol. [Image courtesy of Cardiac Dimensions] Cardiac Dimensions announced today that it closed an oversubscribed Series E financing round worth $53 million.

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 ...

Total endoscopic repair of the mitral valve is now possible with the assistance of robotic technology, but the physiologic insult of cardiopulmonary bypass is still present. Catheter based ...

ST. LOUIS — Dr. Scally, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explains mitral valve disease, a condition that affects the mitral valve, which controls ...

It opens to let oxygen-rich blood pass out of the heart and into the body. A healthy aortic valve has three flaps (called leaflets) that open to let blood through and close to prevent blood from ...