MAN’S STORY. YOU COULD SAY HE IS LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. YEAH, DEB, THIS STORY COULD HAVE ENDED BADLY. DEVONTE FLETCHER IS ONLY 30 YEARS OLD, BUT HE HAS A HISTORY OF IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT, ATRIAL ...

The findings provide contemporary surgical benchmarks, which will become even more important as M-TEER trial data emerge.

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Panayotis Vardas, M.D., was recently featured on UAB’s MedCast Podcast to discuss the causes and treatment options for degenerative valve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among those requiring mitral valve surgery, Black patients were less likely to undergo a minimally invasive ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who received transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, mitral valve surgery was associated with risks ...

An international study of more than 400 adults concludes that people who undergo mitral valve surgery (between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart) and also have less than severe ...

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial, which ...

When surgery is needed to correct residual or recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), chances are that the patient will need to have the valve replaced ...

Patients who had leaky mitral heart valves repaired along with bypass surgery had with healthier hearts than those who had bypass only, according to new research presented in the American Heart ...