Doctors at Rajasthan Hospital Limited (RHL), Jaipur have successfully performed India first electrosurgical valve-in-valve ...

An 85-year-old patient was able to benefit from the expertise of a team from the CIUSSS de l’Estrie – CHUS, led by Dr.

By Bryan Laprise Local Journalism Initiative  After multiple hours of preparation and arduous teamwork, a team led by ...

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

Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) often leads to heart failure in elderly patients, many of whom are too frail ...

The mitral valve controls blood flow between the heart's left atrium and ventricle. When structural changes affect the atrium or valve, it may not ...

Mitral valve prolapse occurs if the cusps of the bicuspid valve do not close properly and bulge into the left atrium. For severe cases, treatment may include valve repair or replacement.

Mitral valve stenosis is a narrowing of the mitral valve, often due to rheumatic fever. It causes breathlessness, chest pain, palpitations, and hoarseness, and may require medication or surgery ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a condition where the mitral valve doesn’t close properly, so some of the blood flows backward. This makes the heart work harder to pump enough blood to the body.

For patients with failing bioprosthetic surgical mitral valves, the transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure provides early outcomes similar to those seen with repeat surgical replacement, ...

2.2 Computational modeling The mitral valve model underwent meshing using triangular shell elements with a size of 0.12 mm in the ABAQUS finite-element software (v2021hf7, Dassault Systemes, United ...