The mitral valve is also known as the bicuspid valve. This is one of the heart’s four valves that help prevent blood from flowing backward as it moves through the heart. Read on to learn more about ...

WASHINGTON -- Operators can avoid two feared complications of transcatheter valve replacement with upfront radiofrequency-based laceration of the aortic or mitral leaflets, according to two early ...

Very early results with a minimally invasive chordal replacement procedure suggest that the beating-heart, echo-guided procedure may emerge as another option for treating degenerative mitral valve ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a structural change in the mitral valve of the heart. Rather than closing tightly, one or both flaps of the valve billow into the left atrium of the heart. People sometimes ...

Your heart has four chambers, two on the right and two on the left. Blood flows into the right side of the heart, then to the lungs where it receives oxygen. From the lungs it flows into the left ...

In the surgical literature, an edge-to-edge MVR technique was described by Alfieri and colleagues in 2001, whereby the edges of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the posterior mitral leaflet (PML) ...

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 ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a condition affecting the heart. Doctors may also call it floppy mitral valve syndrome or systolic click-murmur syndrome. It stems from a mitral valve malfunction, which may ...

Regulatory approval clears the path for Valtech to market its implantable mitral reconstruction device in European markets MR is a vastly underserved condition in which the mitral valve leaflets fail ...

Doctors classify mitral valve regurgitation into four progressive stages. Symptoms typically don’t appear until the final stages but monitoring and treatment in earlier stages may help slow ...