Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

A biological valve implantation in the mitral position (valve within a valve) was performed – a complex hybrid procedure in a 74-year-old patient in serious general condition with impaired kidney ...

ccf.org Contemporary indications for mitral valve repair in patients with degenerative mitral valve ... surgical dexterity with precise movements of instruments in the closed chest, excellent ...

Chest X-ray showed cardiomegaly and bilateral haziness suggestive ... Left ventricular ejection fraction was moderately reduced at 35% with normal dimensions. The mitral valve annulus was normal, with ...

Surgical revision after percutaneous mitral valve repair with a clip: initial multicenter experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Dec;80(6):2338-42.

In addition, before the development of prosthetic mitral-valve replacement, pure or predominant mitral regurgitation could not consistently be relieved by operation, and although it was clear that ...

In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased mortality and morbidity and this is also the case in patients in whom AF persists postoperatively.

SGMC Health recently achieved the successful completion of its first transcarotid access Transcatheter Aortic Valve ...

New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...

I firmly believe you might like it better than Windows. I firmly believe you might like it better than Windows. Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers ...

Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope ... It will be the first on-orbit repair of a NASA space telescope by astronauts since the final Hubble servicing mission ...