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 starting the surgery?

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

A group of researchers led by Professor Yoshiki SAWA of the Cardiovascular Group in the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, succeeded in beating-heart surgery to repair a mitral valve. They ...

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Panayotis Vardas, M.D., was recently featured on UAB’s MedCast Podcast to discuss the causes and treatment options for degenerative valve ...

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 ...

In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac surgical techniques for repairing a poorly functioning mitral valve, improvements in physical activity, ...

LONDON — Opinions about the relative value of interventions to control mitral regurgitation secondary to heart failure might be altered by two large randomized trials. The RESHAPE-HF2 trial showed ...

Share on Pinterest Experts say certain types of surgery can be safe and effective for a particular kind of heart valve disease. PER Images/Stocksy About 24 million people around the world are affected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients who had mitral valve surgery but also tricuspid regurgitation or tricuspid annular dilation, ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MDMedically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Heart valves keep blood flowing in the ...

Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...