Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

RVD assessment should be included in routine degenerative mitral regurgitation evaluation. To avoid the excess mortality observed after mitral valve surgery related to RVD, surgery should be discussed ...

is noninferior to mitral valve (MV) surgery in patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation at 1 year. Patient selection is key for success of any surgical or percutaneous MV ...

The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle. Mitral regurgitation occurs when the mitral valve leaks blood back into the left atrium.

A diastolic thrill was palpable, however, over the septal leaflet of the mitral valve in each ... Steell postulated that the murmur was probably caused by pulmonary regurgitation, which, in ...

Capstan’s minimally invasive, robotic-assisted technology aims initially to address mitral valve regurgitation, a prevalent cardiac condition in which the valve does not close properly, causing blood ...

Despite multiple emerging transcatheter valve treatment options, no guidelines exist for the transcatheter treatment of multi-valve disease. We present a case of a 76-year-old patient with concomitant ...