A GRANDFATHER has become one of the first Irish patients to undergo a new alternative to open-heart surgery – and told how he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LOUIS — Dr. Scally, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explains mitral valve disease, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In two forms of severe mitral valve disease with high rates of mortality and limited treatment options, multicenter trials with novel transcatheter devices produced what experts ...

Brian A. Scansen, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Cardiology), traced degenerative mitral valve disease from the at-risk patient to ...

Each year, roughly 2% to 5% of the population is affected by mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral regurgitation (MR). These ...

A man has described as "black and white" his transformation after undergoing a new heart procedure at the Mater Hospital in ...

The Mater Hospital in Dublin says a new mitral valve procedure is a major advancement for heart patients judged too high-risk ...

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 ...

Vibhu Parcha, M.D., a clinical research fellow in the UAB Division of Cardiovascular Disease, says this study was an extensive surveillance exercise at a national level to look into the implications ...

Marc Gaudisosi thought his symptoms were caused by a sinus infection. Then an urgent care told him to go to the hospital.

LONDON, England—A new analysis is emphasizing the prognostic significance of residual tricuspid regurgitation (TR) following mitral valve-in-valve procedures, with investigators showing that those ...