Mitral valve regurgitation is sometimes called mitral insufficiency or mitral incompetence. Whatever term your doctor uses, it's describing a mitral valve that leaks, allowing blood to flow backward ...

How to navigate the likelihood ratios for mitral regurgitation presented by the physical exam, particularly auscultation, are the focus of this episode of AP Cardiology with host Andrew Perry, MD, ...

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

THE case reported below illustrates two interesting and unusual phenomena. The first is the production of the physical signs and phonocardiographic evidence of aortic stenosis in a patient with mitral ...

Ischemic mitral regurgitation is defined as mitral insufficiency that occurs as a result of coronary artery disease in the absence of intrinsic structural abnormalities of the mitral valve. Ischemic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Among PROVE-HF trial participants with HF with reduced ejection fraction and moderate to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who underwent transcatheter mitral valve replacement for severe mitral regurgitation, 93% of ...

For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical approach ...

The mitral valve separates the heart’s left atrium (upper chamber) from the left ventricle (lower chamber), and has two leaflets that open and close like saloon doors. When the leaflets are open, ...

Nearly a year after bagging the option to acquire Millipede, Boston Scientific has pulled the trigger. When the pair inked the agreement in January, Boston Scientific handed over $90 million for a ...

Background Recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) remains a major limitation of mitral valve (MV) repair in patients with ...

Mitral regurgitation is the most prevalent valvular heart disease in humans. It's also common among dogs, especially older ...