Mitral valve prolapse

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CardiAQ Valve Technologies raises $33 million for mitral valve replacement

CardiAQ Valve Technologies raised $33.2 million, successfully closing an equity funding round launched late last month. CardiAQ, a privately held device maker developing transcatheter mitral valve rep...

Mitral Valve Fix During CABG May Help (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- In patients with moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation scheduled for bypass surgery, repairing the mitral valve during coronary artery bypass grafting had some benefits.

First Look at Mitral Valve-in-Valve Data From Global Registry

Preliminary data from a series of patients receiving TAVI devices on top of failing surgically implanted mitral valves or rings, so-called valve-in-valve procedures, hint at decent long-term efficacy....

Nonsurgical Mitral Valve Placement Doable

LOS ANGELES (MedPage Today) -- Percutaneous mitral valve replacement may be on the horizon, first-in-man results suggest.

Adding mitral valve repair to CABG has benefits at one year

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mitral valve repair during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) improved functional capacity at one year and reduced left ventricular volumes and mitral regurgitation...

Mitral Valve Surgery

Mitral valve repair represents the optimal surgical treatment for severe degenerative mitral regurgitation, but what is the best time for it? European Heart Journal

New Expandable Prosthetic Valves For Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital have successfully implanted a modified version of a expandable prosthetic heart valve in several children with mitral valve disease. Unlike traditional prostheti...

Surgeons pilot expandable prosthetic valves for congenital heart disease

(Medical Xpress)—Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital have successfully implanted a modified version of an expandable prosthetic heart valve in several children with mitral valve disease. Unlike t...

Diverticulum of the mitral valve, a rare cause of mitral regurgitation.

Non-infective mitral valve diverticulum is extremely rare. We present a case of intraoperatively diagnosed mitral valve diverticulum of a 69-year-old man presenting with mitral regurgitation who was s...

Mitral valve replacement is a viable alternative to mitral valve repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation: a case-matched study.

Comparisons of mitral valve repair with mitral valve replacement for ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) have been limited by differences in preoperative and operative characteristics of patients unde...

Transventricular mitral valve operations.

We report transventricular mitral valve operations in 2 patients with severe mitral regurgitation and postinfarction left ventricular rupture and pseudoaneurysm. The first patient had direct papillary...

Bicuspid Aortic Valve Endocarditis Complicated by Mitral Valve Aneurysm.

Abstract  We describe a case of mitral valve aneurysm associated with concomitant aortic valve endocarditis. Aneurysms appear as a localized saccular bulge of the anterior leaflet into the left atri...

Utility of the Posterior to Anterior Mitral Valve Leaflets Length Ratio in Prediction of Outcome of Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty.

Background: Scoring of mitral stenosis (MS) severity is very important for selection of patients for balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV). Objective: We propose a novel yet simple, independent parameter...