Henry Ford Health cardiologists are the first to offer new Tri-Clip procedure to patients for whom open-heart surgery isn’t an option A breakthrough in treating tricuspid regurgitation, or TR, is ...

When Douglas Williams began feeling constantly tired, needing daily naps and struggling to walk around his yard, he assumed ...

Patients with moderate tricuspid regurgitation (TR) undergoing surgery for mitral valve disease have a significant improvement in TR grade, according to the results of a new study. In early ...

For the first time in the United States, doctors used a minimally invasive procedure to replace a failing, hard-to-reach heart valve with a new one — and placed it just outside the heart. Due to prior ...

THE DEATH PENALTY. A RETIRED MOUNT AIRY NURSE MADE HISTORY AND IT INVOLVES HER HEART. SHE IS THE FIRST PERSON TO UNDERGO A NEW PROCEDURE HERE IN THE PIEDMONT. WXII 12 KRIS PETERSON HAS DETAILS ON THE ...

Among Medicare beneficiaries, implantation was especially frequent for female patients and those undergoing tricuspid valve replacement with or without concomitant left-sided heart surgeries.

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, ...

The idea of add-on tricuspid valve repair at the time of mitral valve surgery makes sense because severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is associated with a poor prognosis, and reoperation on the ...

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

LONG BEACH, Calif., June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The cardiology team at the MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach Medical Center, led by Chief of Cardiology David Shavelle, M.D., ...

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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 ...