Mercy Medical Center cardiologist Mark Vesely explains why women might be at greater risk for mitral valve disease, and how ...

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

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

Why it matters: Millions live with undiagnosed valvular heart disease, which can lead to heart failure, stroke, or death if untreated. What’s causing it: Valve narrowing and calcification can result ...

Marc Gaudiosi went to a CVS Minute Clinic last year because he thought he had sinus infection or the flu. He was wrong. A nurse who cared for him there listened to Gaudiosi’s heart and heard a murmur, ...

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

ANSWER: I am very sorry to hear about the sudden death of your friend during surgery. Open-heart surgery is always risky, but ...

Physical therapy is helping.

The overall mortality risk from an open-heart mitral valve surgery is about 11%, which is about one in nine people based on ...

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