Women can be more prone than men are to certain types of heart valve problems. The human heart has many different valves that ...

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, ...

New findings reveal a potential connection between serotonin activity and the progression of a widespread heart valve disorder. Serotonin is best known for its role in mood, but new research suggests ...

Loneliness is linked to an increased risk for degenerative valvular heart disease and could be a modifiable risk factor for ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a condition affecting the heart. Doctors may also call it floppy mitral valve syndrome or systolic click-murmur syndrome. It stems from a mitral valve malfunction, which may ...

Led by Daniel Won, BS (Northwestern Medicine), and published recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the retrospective ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

A novel transcatheter mitral valve replacement system designed for left atrial fixation rather than subvalvular fixation ...

We conducted a randomized, controlled trial involving patients with heart failure and moderate to severe functional mitral regurgitation from 30 sites in nine countries. The patients were assigned in ...

LVOT-sparing device designed for broader applicability of transcatheter mitral valve repla ...