NEW YORK (Reuters) - An experimental minimally invasive technique developed by Abbott Laboratories to repair the most common type of heart valve problem appeared to be as durable as surgical repair ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

ATLANTA - Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as ...

SEATTLE, Wash. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Over 85 million individuals in the U.S. currently suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease. Among that number, those 75 years old and above are at the ...

Life became increasingly difficult for those patients who were facing chronic heart problems. Mitral valve leakage or ...

Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute cardiology team perform surgery on a patient with heart valve disease, using a newly, FDA-approved clip device. The device gives patients diagnosed with ...

Mr. Kim (82 years old, male), diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation, had already undergone two heart surgeries but was admitted to the intensive care unit of a nearby hospital due to severe ...

In June, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge began offering a new option to heart patients with leaky tricuspid heart valves, a condition that doctors previously had few tools to treat.

A team of interventional cardiologists from Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease recently became the first in the United States and the Western Hemisphere to repair a heart valve ...

THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. MEANWHILE, NEW THIS MORNING, A SACRAMENTO MAN HAS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE THANKS TO A BRAND NEW PROCEDURE TO HELP MILLIONS OF AMERICANS DEALING WITH A LEAKY HEART VALVE. GREGORY IS A ...

NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - An experimental minimally invasive technique developed by Abbott Laboratories to repair the most common type of heart valve problem appeared to be as durable as surgical ...