Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of valvular incompetence. About 1 in 5 (20%) of people over 55 years, undergoing an Echocardiogram, have some extent of mitral valve regurgitation. Mitral ...

Ischemic mitral regurgitation is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. For surgical patients with moderate regurgitation, the benefits of adding mitral-valve repair to coronary-artery ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—Moderate or severe mitral regurgitation present before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and moderate to severe paravalvular aortic regurgitation after the procedure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 1 year, leaflet transcatheter mitral valve repair demonstrated low rate of complications, high survival and ...

Moderate or severe mitral regurgitation (MR) at baseline contributes to poorer prognosis in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), according to results of a large registry ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is the most-common valvular heart disease in the western world. From an etiologic point of view, MR can be either organic (mainly degenerative in western countries) or ...

There is no question MitraClip is an incredibly effective option — more so than expected. Most patients experience a significant decrease in regurgitation, their ventricle shrinks, heart-failure ...

Summary: Patients with mitral regurgitation face a dilemma of whether to undergo corrective surgery early, when they might have no or few symptoms, or wait until their condition worsens. Current ...

Secondary mitral regurgitation (sMR) is common in patients with heart failure (HF) and is associated with increased mortality, but it is undertreated, according to a new study. Investigators analyzed ...

Mitral valve replacement using a novel transfemoral implantation system was successful in patients with severe mitral regurgitation at high surgical risk, according to findings presented at the ...

The human heart has four valves which direct the flow of blood in the correct double-circulation mode, taking blood to and from the lungs as well as to and from the rest of the body. Two of the valves ...