WASHINGTON, DC — The US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the Sapien 3 THV (Edwards Lifesciences) approval indication to include transcatheter "replacement" of failed bioprosthetic valves in ...

Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

A steady stream of structural trial data, approvals, reimbursement decisions, and real-world rollouts arrived in 2025.

After years of interest in and anticipation about the potential for transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), Edwards Lifesciences is ready to kick off a CE Mark trial for its TMVR system. The ...

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 ...

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 starting the surgery?

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 ...

What Is Mitral Valve Regurgitation? When your heart pumps blood, it’s supposed to follow a specific path in one direction. But sometimes, it goes the wrong way. Mitral valve regurgitation is when your ...

THE ideal response to mitral commissurotomy includes a normal blood flow into the left ventricle without the need for an elevated pressure in the left atrium and the return of cardiac output to normal ...