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 ...

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 ...

Novant Health has launched a robotic mitral valve repair program that is minimally invasive and has a much faster recovery time for patients needing mitral valve replacement and repair surgery. Novant ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac surgical techniques for repairing a poorly functioning mitral valve, improvements in physical activity, ...

Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be ...