A keyhole surgery procedure for mitral valve disease has been rolled out across the NHS this week after a decade-long delay due to funding struggles. The procedure, trans-catheter edge-to-edge repair ...

Gadget was given a demonstration of the live use on a patient of an AI system to repair a leaking heart valve, writes ARTHUR ...

When one of the heart's valves springs a big leak, that can spell big trouble. The good news: The condition, known as degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR), is treatable using a minimally invasive ...

MIAMI, FL—For patients who require mitral valve surgery after failed transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), outcomes are worst when the initial procedure was attempted but unsuccessful, an analysis ...

PHOENIX, AZ—The risks of surgical reintervention for a failed mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) are “not negligible,” a new analysis of the CUTTING-EDGE registry confirms, with ...

Their findings on the condition called degenerative mitral regurgitation were published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), representing the largest study to ...

Edwards Lifesciences can say two things about its Pascal Precision Valve Repair System. The first is that the technology has FDA approval and the second is that in a study, the device showed its ...

"The procedure is getting many patients back to a more energetic life, and back to activities some haven't been able to do for years." To treat mitral valve regurgitation —a condition affecting more ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have finalized a new National Coverage Determination for tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) in patients suffering from symptomatic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Access to transcatheter edge-to-edge repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation did not impact annualized ...

A UK heart charity is urging the NHS to update the "small print" in its commissioning guidelines that excludes thousands of patients affected by a form of mitral regurgitation (MR) from potentially ...