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Testing by Rutgers Health and other institutions is reshaping how – and how gently – doctors repair failing valves ...

A 58-year-old Iraqi man, Hadi Mustafa Hamad, underwent a revolutionary heart procedure at Paras Health Gurugram, which ...

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 ...

In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac surgical techniques for repairing a poorly functioning mitral valve, improvements in physical activity, ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My doctor says I have a leaky mitral valve. What does this mean? And does it need to be treated if it's not causing symptoms? DEAR READER: The four valves of your heart work like ...

(RTTNews) - Abbott Laboratories (ABT) announced Tuesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system to ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My doctor says I have a leaky mitral valve. What does this mean? And does it need to be treated if it’s not causing symptoms? DEAR READER: The four valves of your heart work like ...

LONDON — Opinions about the relative value of interventions to control mitral regurgitation secondary to heart failure might be altered by two large randomized trials. The RESHAPE-HF2 trial showed ...

Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...