Corewell Health was awarded the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award, one of only 24 centers in the country.

Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has developed a globally inclusive standard dataset of ...

The tricuspid valve is anatomically complex. It’s often called the “forgotten valve” because of its position in the back of ...

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has developed a globally inclusive standard dataset of 16 patient-centered outcome measures for people with heart valve disease, ...

THE Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) has become the first health facility in Gauteng to successfully ...

Once you have made the decision to have heart valve replacement surgery, you, along with your surgeon, will need to decide what type of replacement valve is best for you. There are several types of ...

Within a cohort of >600 000 individuals without prior mitral valve intervention, 5.9%–6.8% and 1.6%–1.7% of men and women, had moderate and severe MR. Like severe MR, at the time of investigation, ...

The left heart pump consists of the left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, and aorta. Its job is to pump oxygen-rich blood out to the body’s tissues. Blood returning to the heart ...

FIGURE 1. Quantification parameters of the mitral annulus. The full blue curve represents the 3D saddle-shaped annulus, whereas the grey dashed curve represents the projection of the mitral annulus ...