The mitral valve controls blood flow between the heart's left atrium and ventricle. When structural changes affect the atrium ...

Both minimally invasive heart surgery and traditional surgery that involves opening the chest bone — a procedure known as sternotomy — are safe, effective ways to repair a damaged mitral valve.

In patients who had mitral valve surgery but also tricuspid regurgitation or tricuspid annular dilation, performing concomitant tricuspid valve repair lowered risk for progression of tricuspid ...

Researchers report that recovery from baseline to 6 weeks is better with mini-mitral surgery, although at 12 weeks, recovery of physical function is the same for both mini-mitral and sternotomy.

This raises the possibility that preventive strategies should vary based on the type of mitral surgery, but more research is ...

Anthony Leto, of West Hempstead, who had a different type of heart-valve disease, received a replacement valve just before he turned 93. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday. St.

For most patients, mitral valve repair —either open-heart surgery or a minimally invasive procedure—is the best option. Mitral valve repair is a very successful procedure, especially when it’s ...

During surgery to repair mitral valve prolapse, we are able to perform “plastic surgery” on your own heart valve so that we do not need to replace it with an artificial valve. As seen in the figure ...

The researchers therefore drew on a comparison of 2300 patients who needed planned mitral valve repair surgery between 2011 and 2016, and who were allocated to either robotic surgery (372 ...

People look to us because we're the only academic medical center in the Mountain West." While not every patient is a candidate for minimally invasive mitral valve repair surgery, it is a good option ...

In total, they identified 1,588 patients undergoing MV repair, of whom 25% had moderate TR and 7% had severe TR. Among the 404 patients with moderate TR—the focus of the analysis—103 patients had ...

Of the patients who received ablation and mitral valve surgery, 63 percent were free from atrial fibrillation at six and 12 months after surgery, while 29 percent of patients who received mitral ...