This study assessed risk factors for mitral regurgitation (MR) recurrence or functional mitral stenosis during long‐term follow‐up in patients undergoing mitral valve repair for isolated posterior ...

Automated electronic clinician notification alerts enhance the timely evaluation and treatment of clinically significant ...

Among asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis, a previous analysis showed that the risk of a composite of death during surgery or within 30 days after surgery (called operative mortality) or ...

Your heart depends on careful coordination of its components, and even small disruptions can affect the whole system. One condition that troubles many people across the country is mitral valve ...

Edwards Lifesciences has claimed an FDA approval for its Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system—marking the agency’s first in this type of implant that takes a potentially safer route ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the Sapien M3 system for transseptal transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) for use in patients with symptomatic moderate-to-severe mitral ...

When students in Catherine Hartmann’s honors seminar at the University of Wyoming took their final exams this month, they encountered a testing method as old as the ancient philosophers whose ideas ...

Italian students taking oral exams have a better shot at success if they’re scheduled around midday, according to new research. Analyzing over 100,000 assessments, scientists found a clear bell curve ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

Q I am 66 years old and an avid cyclist. Last winter, after we went for a long ride, I suddenly felt lightheaded and then fainted. My doctor ordered a series of heart scans that found slight mitral ...