Manipal: Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, successfully performed transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), a minimally ...

Doctors at Oklahoma Heart Institute are now offering a newly FDA-approved heart valve replacement that requires no open-heart ...

Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has reported new data supporting its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.

Mitral valve surgery is used to treat both primary and secondary MR. Surgery, whether mitral valve repair or replacement, has been the standard of care in treating patients with primary (degenerative) ...

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 ...

Edwards Lifesciences has bought Harpoon Medical in a $250 million deal. The takeover rounds out Edwards’ pitch for the transcatheter mitral valve disease market by giving it control of a technology to ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

CHICAGO, IL—There are at least 26 novel devices vying to prove their mettle in the transcatheter mitral valve repair space: several targeting leaflet coaptation, some focused on the mitral annulus, ...