Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD, completed his 900th robotic heart surgery in December.  Robotic procedures that Dr. Liao and his team perform include mitral valve repair and replacement, tricuspid valve repair ...

Edwards Lifesciences has claimed an FDA approval for its Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system—marking the ...

Research, along with guidelines from the American Heart Association® (AHA), indicates that patients who have primary mitral regurgitation would benefit from mitral valve repair rather than replacement ...

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 ...

The SAPIEN M3 system received CE Mark in April 2025, making it the world’s first approved transfemoral transcatheter mitral ...

The Sapien M3 device is the first approved mitral regurgitation treatment to use a transseptal approach, Edwards said.

The Sechenov University Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic has developed a program that will help cardiac surgeons with mitral valve reconstruction. The difficulty lies in the fact that no one has done a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A minimally invasive approach to mitral valve repair was safe and effective vs. sternotomy. Recovery time and ...

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2008;31(8):1057-1063. Freedom from AF at 6 months Maze group 87.2% vs 9.4% control group 0.0001 Freedom from AF at 12 months Maze group 93.6% vs 9.4% control group 0.0001 ...

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 ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: 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 ...