Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

This minimally invasive method of mitral valve prosthesis replacement is rare worldwide and was performed on a 74-year-old patient at the Zhan Mitrev Clinic. The team, consisting of cardiac surgeons, ...

ccf.org Contemporary indications for mitral valve repair in patients with degenerative mitral valve disease. Patient selection criteria for minimally invasive mitral valve repair. Technical mandates ...

Mitral valve repair is favored over replacement in ... Whether repair is open, minimally invasive or catheter-based, imaging is critical for patient selection and assessment of valve pathology.

Mitral valve prolapse occurs when portion(s ... but recovery from heart valve surgery can take several months until you feel fully recovered. Rosengart TK, Feldman T, Borger MA, et al. Percutaneous ...

Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (MICS-AVR) techniques have gained popularity in recent years as alternatives to traditional open-heart surgery. These techniques aim to reduce the ...

Members of the team spoke with the News about their experiences performing the BATMAN procedure and its future implications.

Total endoscopic repair of the mitral valve is now possible with the assistance of robotic technology, but the physiologic insult of cardiopulmonary bypass is still present. Catheter based ...

Based on the results from the MATTERHORN (A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Study to Assess Mitral Valve Reconstruction for Advanced Insufficiency of Functional ... aligning with a broader trend ...

In addition, before the development of prosthetic mitral-valve replacement, pure or predominant mitral regurgitation could not consistently be relieved by operation, and although it was clear that ...