Dear Doctor: Friend’s mitral valve replacement resulted in her death; how could this happen?

The overall mortality risk from an open-heart mitral valve surgery is about 11%, which is about one in nine people based on ...
Healio

Transseptal mitral valve replacement system approved

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...
TCTMD

Redo Mitral Valve Replacement Surgery Outdoes ViV Over the Long Term

Led by Daniel Won, BS (Northwestern Medicine), and published recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the retrospective ...
Science Daily

Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery offers viable option for select heart patients

Dr. Downs, Gorav Ailawadi, MD, and researchers from a statewide consortium of 18 hospitals in the Virginia Cardiac Surgery Quality Initiative examined records for 1,304 patients who underwent isolated ...
BioWorld

Edwards lands first FDA approval for transcatheter MVR

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. received U.S. FDA approval for its Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system, making it the first transcatheter therapy utilizing a transseptal approach to be indicated for ...