What is that? Should I be worried? Dear Reader: Mitral valve prolapse is a condition that interferes with the one-way flow of blood through two of the four chambers of the heart. As the name suggests, ...

Individuals with a history of cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, arrhythmia, cardiac surgery, valve malfunction ... diameter (LVESD), interventricular septal thickness (IVST), and posterior wall ...

A muscular wall called the septum separates the left and right ventricles, the 2 lower chambers of the heart ... You might need more work done on the heart, like repair of the mitral valve. In these ...

Mitral annular disjunction in mitral valve prolapse with mitral regurgitation was tied to a threefold increase in long-term ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

Q I am 66 years old and an avid cyclist. Last winter, after we went for a long ride, I suddenly felt lightheaded and then ...

New data from a large, international registry showed balloon-assisted anterior mitral leaflet modification (BATMAN) was safe, ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as the world’s first transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

For patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral regurgitation (MR), mitral annular disjunction (MAD) is associated ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...