Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed an artificial model of the mitral heart valve ...

Women are twice as likely as men to receive replacement and have higher rates of recurrent MR, but survival is similar.

Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed an artificial model of the mitral heart valve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LOUIS — Dr. Scally, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explains mitral valve disease, ...

Mitral valve disease is when the heart’s mitral valve stops functioning correctly. This can lead to blood not flowing around the body correctly and cause several health complications. The mitral valve ...

A 92-year-old woman, deemed too frail for open-heart surgery due to severe heart failure, has regained her mobility and ...

Researchers hope to better understand diseases in the mitral heart valve with an artificial model that mimics the valve’s complex mechanisms.

Background Racial disparities in valvular heart disease are well-documented, yet evidence specific to mitral regurgitation ...

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Panayotis Vardas, M.D., was recently featured on UAB’s MedCast Podcast to discuss the causes and treatment options for degenerative valve ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a condition that is supposed to occur frequently in the presence of panic disorder. Since it is a heart condition, patients told they have this condition have one more thing ...

A retrospective review of more than 24,000 patients who underwent an EKG at Mayo Clinic finds that nearly one-quarter of the patients had mitral annulus calcification, a chronic degeneration of tissue ...