Mitral Valve Insufficiency The mitral valve is supposed to be a one-way passage between your heart's left atrium and left ventricle. It has two flaps, called leaflets. With each contraction of your ...

Today, thanks to improved quality of medical care and increased attention on prevention, people are living longer. And while high blood pressure and coronary artery disease affect more people, heart ...

The sudden passing of Eleanor Carol Barr, the 39-year-old wife of U.S. Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky, is putting the spotlight on mitral valve prolapse, or floppy valve syndrome, listed as the cause of ...

The mitral valve controls the flow of blood from the heart’s left atrium down to the left ventricle, where it is pumped out to the body. When part of the valve doesn’t close properly, it’s called ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Mitral regurgitation, or MR, is a backward leakage of the ...

CHICAGO, IL—In a TVT 2019 session devoted largely to crystal balls and speculation, interventional cardiologists and surgeons discussed what comes next for therapies aimed at treating mitral ...

Carol Leavell Barr, wife of Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr died suddenly at the couple’s home on Tuesday. At the time, there was “no explanation” for her death. Preliminary autopsy results now suggest that ...

Philips has rolled out an AI-driven tool, DeviceGuide, intended to support clinicians during intricate cardiac interventions, ...

The mitral valve clip, which is marketed in the U.S. as the MitraClip, is a minimally invasive, non-surgical alternative used to repair a damaged mitral heart valve. The mitral valve clip procedure ...

The human heart has four valves which direct the flow of blood in the correct double-circulation mode, taking blood to and from the lungs as well as to and from the rest of the body. Two of the valves ...