Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

The sudden passing of Eleanor Carol Barr, the 39-year-old wife of U.S. Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky, is putting the spotlight on mitral valve prolapse, or floppy valve syndrome, listed as the cause of ...

Our multidisciplinary cardiovascular team collaborates on mitral valve repair, transcatheter technologies, mitral valve replacement, and follow-up treatment so patients can get all their care for ...

Management of asymptomatic patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation is controversial—conservative surveillance and early mitral valve repair have both been advocated as reasonable approaches on ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

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 ...

Patients with moderate tricuspid regurgitation (TR) undergoing surgery for mitral valve disease have a significant improvement in TR grade, according to the results of a new study. In early ...

QUEBEC CITY — Although women appear to benefit as much as men do from left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) during surgery for atrial fibrillation (AF), they have far worse 30-day outcomes following ...

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common congenital abnormality of the heart that can cause severe complications such as arrhythmias, heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. To date, the causes of MVP ...

MIAMI, FL—For patients who require mitral valve surgery after failed transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), outcomes are worst when the initial procedure was attempted but unsuccessful, an analysis ...