Mitral valve prolapse is a minor heart issue where blood can leak backward into the heart. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, and managing the condition.

Overall age-adjusted mortality rates have fallen, but the poorest parts of the world aren’t sharing in the benefits.

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According to Walmsley,1 it was Andreas Vesalius who suggested the picturesque term “mitral” to describe the left atrioventricular valve owing to its resemblance to a plan view of the bishop’s mitre.

Papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve is rare and may not cause symptoms, but does require treatment. Here is an account of how the problem was detected and treated in a 75-year-old male.

From Cutler’s first attempt to treat the mitral valve by inserting a tenotomy knife through the left ventricle, to Carpentier’s introduction of several repair techniques and a functional ...

With the launch of the new Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement (TTVR) Program at the Stony Brook Heart Institute (SBHI), patients at Stony Brook Medicine have access to groundbreaking, minimally ...

With the launch of the new Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement (TTVR) Program at the Stony Brook Heart Institute (SBHI), patients at Stony Brook Medicine have access to groundbreaking, minimally ...

Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is used with increasing frequency in cardiac surgery for monitoring and diagnostic purposes. Recent data have shown the impact of improved outcomes in ...

Images of normal human hearts and of a variety of mitral valve function abnormalities (mitral valve prolapse, systolic anterior motion of the mitral leaflets, and obstruction of the mitral valve by a ...

The issue features cases categorized into the subtopics of anatomy and physiology, pacemaker leads, and future directions – each with a podcast summary recorded by Editor-in-Chief Julia Grapsa, MD, ...