Clinical trials testing many unique devices are now underway to demonstrate whether percutaneous treatment of mitral regurgitation can be done safely and successfully. Despite careful engineering and ...

Abbott said Tuesday it received Food and Drug Administration approval for the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement system to treat calcium buildup in the ring that supports the heart valve.

Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) physicians Pradeep K. Yadav, M.D., Director of Structural Interventions, and Vinod H. Thourani, M.D., Marcus Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery, successfully performed ...

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 ...

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The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...

Mitral valve repair can be done in two ways. “Balloon Valvuloplasty” is a cardiac catheterization procedure mostly performed for patients with Mitral Stenosis. An interventional cardiologist does this ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

Mitral valve surgery is used to treat both primary and secondary MR. Surgery, whether mitral valve repair or replacement, has been the standard of care in treating patients with primary (degenerative) ...