Heart valve replacement involves removing the diseased heart valve. Newer techniques go through the groin. Learn how open ...

While previous trials have led to questions surrounding the potential benefits of valve interventions in mitral or tricuspid regurgitation, a pair of trials presented recently demonstrate their ...

Cardia’s ShortCut device, designed to open up previously implanted heart valves and clear a path for blood to flow into the ...

Pi-Cardia announced today that the FDA granted clearance for its ShortCut leaflet modification device for TAVR procedures.

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008;5(6):350-353. Randall N de Visser, RN de Visser gained his medical degree in 1996 from the University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and in 1997 he ...

For the first time in Mumbai, an elderly patient with heart valve disease underwent a double valve re-replacement with a ...

"Next, we will take what we have learned and develop one for the mitral valve. That valve is responsible for making sure that blood flows from your left atrium to your left ventricle. It also ensures ...

ic.ac.uk According to Walmsley, 1 it was Andreas Vesalius who suggested the picturesque term “mitral” to describe the left atrioventricular valve owing to its resemblance to a plan view of the ...

An unexpected and unusual cause of pulmonary hypertension in a patient with hypersensitivity pneumonitis: partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection causing pulmonary artery hypertension.