People with severely leaky heart valves that cause no symptoms — a situation thought to be relatively harmless — actually are in danger of dying and should consider surgery to get the problem fixed ...

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 ...

UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed the health system’s first commercial transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure using ...

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital First on Central Coast to Implant TriClip™ System, Device to Repair Leaky Tricuspid Heart Valve The structural heart team at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) now ...

Mercy Health – Springfield is now offering an alternate treatment option for those with a leaky heart valve who are ineligible for traditional open-heart surgery. The treatment, Mitral Trans Catheter ...

Former PGA Championship winner Davis Love III is recovering at home after undergoing open-heart surgery last week. Love, 60, underwent surgery to replace a “leaky valve” on Jan. 21 and was released ...

Dr. Siddharth, usually referred to as Dr. Sidd, decided to repair and not replace Baer’s valve. He used an innovative technique called PVL closure to place a catheter in a small vein in the patient’s ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

AllMeD Solutions (TASE:ALMD) subsidiary TruLeaf Medical receives Helsinki Ethics Committee's approval in Uzbekistan to conduct clinical trial in human subjects, paving the way for minimally invasive ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Corewell Health is being nationally recognized for excellence in heart valve repair. The hospital in Grand Rapids was awarded the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award. It ...

You can develop shortness of breath if you have heart valve problems. This is because your heart valves help move blood through the four chambers of your heart and throughout your body. Your heart ...