TCTMD

Believe It: Mitral Valve Repair Beats Replacement for Severe Regurgitation, Registry Shows

Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...
Medscape

Mitral Valve Repair With the MitraClip®

Mitral valve surgery is used to treat both primary and secondary MR. Surgery, whether mitral valve repair or replacement, has been the standard of care in treating patients with primary (degenerative) ...
Medscape

Mitral Valve Replacement Linked to Higher Endocarditis Risk

Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

Intuitive’s cardiac initiative includes valve repair, LAA closure

With nine new procedures cleared for the da Vinci 5 robot, Intuitive’s strategy includes working with a limited number of U.S ...
MassDevice

HighLife wins CE mark for TMVR system

HighLife announced today that it received CE mark approval for its transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.
Chicago Tribune

Mitral valve repair with minimally invasive heart surgery

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...
TCTMD

Mitral Valve Repair Technologies Inch Forward, but Question of Combination Therapy Looms

CHICAGO, IL—There are at least 26 novel devices vying to prove their mettle in the transcatheter mitral valve repair space: several targeting leaflet coaptation, some focused on the mitral annulus, ...
FierceBiotech

Edwards buys mitral valve repair player in $250M deal

Edwards Lifesciences has bought Harpoon Medical in a $250 million deal. The takeover rounds out Edwards’ pitch for the transcatheter mitral valve disease market by giving it control of a technology to ...
Healio

Mitral valve replacement reduces mitral regurgitation, lowers HF hospitalization risk

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who underwent transcatheter mitral valve replacement for severe mitral regurgitation, 93% of ...
UUHC Health Feed

Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Surgery Gives Man His Life Back

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...
Healio

Transcatheter mitral valve replacement may benefit patients with mitral regurgitation

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 30 days, a group of 15 patients who underwent transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement for ...