Comparing Two Types of Mitral Valve Repair; Circulatory Death and Donor Hearts
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Transapical Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Trial Raises Questions
PHOENIX -- Global experience with the novel Intrepid transapical transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR)…
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Safe for Mitral Regurgitation
Elana Gotkine
MONDAY, June 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR), transcatheter edge-to-edge…
Faulty Tricuspid Valve Linked to Less Success for Mitral Valve Therapy
PHOENIX -- Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) at baseline was linked to poorer outcomes after percutaneous mitral valve…
Mitral Valve Replacement Gets a Favorable Match-Up Against GDMT in Functional MR
PARIS -- Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) could be the better choice over conservative therapy for…
Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery Earns Confidence in Expert Hands
NEW ORLEANS -- There is no single best surgical approach for mitral valve repair (MVr) after minimally invasive mini…
Balloon Mitral Valvotomy Interrupted by Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Young Woman
What to do for a woman in her mid-20s who presented with shortness of breath on exertion…
Black Patients Less Likely to Undergo Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Lori Solomon
THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Non-Hispanic Black patients are less likely to undergo minimally invasive mitral valve surgery…
Mitral Valve Repair Devices Go Head-to-Head, and the Top Spot Belongs to…
BOSTON -- The Pascal device for edge-to-edge mitral valve repair was as safe and effective as the MitraClip device, the pivotal…
NeoChord Announces Positive 30-day Results with Transcatheter NeXuS System for Mitral…
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn., Nov. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoChord, Inc., a privately-held medical technology company leading the advancement of beating heart mitral valve repair in…