TULSA, Okla. — A new procedure at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is changing lives for people at high risk for heart surgery.

Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) is ending its planned acquisition of JenaValve. The company is redirecting the capital that ...

Criteria for who should get heart surgery and when are based primarily on research in men, but two studies suggest this leads ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has reported new data supporting its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.

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 ...

To determine the best path forward, you need to work with a cardiologist. They will review the tests you had and can ...

How to navigate the likelihood ratios for mitral regurgitation presented by the physical exam, particularly auscultation, are the focus of this episode of AP Cardiology with host Andrew Perry, MD, ...

DALLAS, TX — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has released an expert consensus decision pathway document on the management of mitral regurgitation (MR) [1]. Specifically, he said the document ...

Medicare reimbursement for transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) was extended to include secondary (functional) mitral regurgitation resulting from heart failure, according to a revised National ...

Your heart has four chambers, two on the right and two on the left. Blood flows into the right side of the heart, then to the lungs where it receives oxygen. From the lungs it flows into the left ...

PARIS, France—Results from the Mitral Annular Calcification (MAC) Global Registry suggest that if patients can survive the complex initial procedure and its aftermath, they have a good chance of ...