13 (College Station, Texas, USA) and a p value of 0.05 was considered statistically significant ... deemed unsuitable for open surgical mitral valve repair or replacement.24,25 Our current analysis ...

Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Scally with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explained Mitral Valve Disease, a condition that affects the mitral valve, which controls blood flow between the ...

Protecting your heart starts with understanding how it works. Heart valve diseases are conditions that can disrupt the flow ...

n=16 [52%] and mitral valve repair (MVr) n=15 [48%]). Prevalence of atrial fibrillation was similar in both groups (MVR n=9 [56%] vs. MVr n=7 [47%], p=0.59). Peri-operative cerebral microinfarction ...

Three girls with major heart problems are thriving after one received a donor heart and then gave healthy valves from her original heart to two other girls. The “domino” heart surgeries by a team at ...

In the midst of transformative transcatheter approaches to repair diseased aortic and mitral valves, the tricuspid valve has been overshadowed, according to Michael E. Bowdish, MD, vice chair of ...

Living valves can grow with the child, reducing the need for repeat surgeries MONDAY, March, 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have ...

46.6 events; 95% CI, 0.42-0.82; p = 0.002). Finally, patients were symptomatically ... For one, the patients in the RESHAPE-HF2 trial had less severe mitral valve regurgitation than did those in the ...

Doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls across North Carolina. The procedure became possible after ...

Background: There are insufficient data regarding how to deal with moderate aortic valve (AV) dysfunction during rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery. In this study, the clinical outcomes of patients ...

The money will support an ongoing pivotal trial of 4C Medical Technologies' transcatheter mitral valve replacement device in ...

J.P., a 37-year-old woman ... On June 10 a Starr–Edwards mitral-valve prosthesis was inserted during cardiopulmonary bypass. The mitral valve was approximately 0.5 square centimeter in diameter ...