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 ...

A novel percutaneous mitral valve repair system was safe and effective in a small study of patients with symptomatic HF and functional mitral regurgitation. In the prospective, nonrandomized MAVERIC ...

For years now, cardiology experts have been arguing about how to determine the degree of severity in patients with functional mitral regurgitation and, hence, to assess when it is necessary to operate ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a serious heart condition that often requires corrective surgery. It is characterized by the backflow or "regurgitation" of blood from the heart's left ventricle into the ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—Compared with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) alone, bypass surgery with mitral valve annuloplasty improves functional capacity and symptoms at 1 year in patients with moderate ...

One potential therapeutic concept for treating heart failure besides guideline directed medical therapy, is to correct any concomitant severe mitral valve insufficiency (mitral regurgitation). Despite ...

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SAN DIEGO -- Percutaneous repair of the mitral valve improved key outcomes in moderate-to-severe, symptomatic mitral regurgitation for heart failure patients who had exhausted pharmaceutical options, ...

Catheter-based direct annuloplasty to treat functional mitral regurgitation (MR) is feasible and has durable effects on MR severity and functional outcomes 6 months to a year after implantation, ...

In the first multicentre, randomized trial to compare undersized annuloplasty versus mitral replacement in severe ischaemic mitral regurgitation (MR), higher recurrence of clinically significant MR ...

During 2002–07, 404 consecutive patients (mean age 70.2 ± 10 years) were enrolled in the study, 314 (77.7%) were males and 90 (22.3%) females. Of these, 309 (76.5%) had ischaemic and 95 (23.5%) had ...

A new study found that older patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than those who received medical management alone, ...