NEW ORLEANS, LA—A detailed look at the echocardiographic results from the COAPT trial has failed to pinpoint any baseline echocardiographic factors that could help valve teams decide which patients ...

Previous studies have shown that transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior to transthroracic echocardiography (TTE) when assessing the feasibility of mitral valve repair and predicting ...

Shortness of breath Fatigue, Palpitations Breathing difficulty when lying down (called Orthopnea). During clinical examination, a physician will be able to identify signs of pulmonary edema and heart ...

Hello and greetings from Bronx, New York. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I thought I'd share with you something ...

For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical approach ...

The optimal treatment strategy for fluctuating MR is uncertain, but can include a combination of surgery, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and new mitral valve approaches Mitral regurgitation (MR) ...

Ischemic mitral regurgitation is defined as mitral insufficiency that occurs as a result of coronary artery disease in the absence of intrinsic structural abnormalities of the mitral valve. Ischemic ...

SAN DIEGO -- Percutaneous repair of the mitral valve improved key outcomes in moderate-to-severe, symptomatic mitral regurgitation for heart failure patients who had exhausted pharmaceutical options, ...

Simon Biner, MD, of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Tel Aviv, Israel), and colleagues collected data on 444 consecutive patients (mean age 82 years; 58% female) receiving transfemoral TAVR and ...

How to navigate the likelihood ratios for mitral regurgitation presented by the physical exam, particularly auscultation, are the focus of this episode of AP Cardiology with host Andrew Perry, MD, ...

Introduction: The function of the heart after successful transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TMVR) remains not fully investigated. Objectives: The aim of our study was to assess the direct ...