JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - For Heart Month, Lynne Currie, the Baptist Heart Valve Coordinator, explained what Mitral Valve Regurgitation is, and what symptoms to look ...

is noninferior to mitral valve (MV) surgery in patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation at 1 year. Patient selection is key for success of any surgical or percutaneous MV ...

Patients with arrhythmogenic mitral valve prolapse syndrome are at increased risk for life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, but studies have been limited by small sample sizes. We sought to ...

The prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised ... of mitral leaflet pathology observed in both men and women, with mitral valve prolapse more frequently ...

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1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Faculty of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Objective We ...

Mild tricuspid valve regurgitation isn’t usually a cause for alarm, especially if you don’t have anatomical issues. About 80% of the population has mild asymptomatic tricuspid regurgitation ...

His ejection fraction was critically low at just 10%, making him prone to severe mitral regurgitation, where blood leaks backward due to improper valve closure. Six months ago, he underwent a CRT ...

Clinical evidence for an abnormally of extracardiac connective tissue was sought in 21 patients with idiopathic mitral valve prolapse and was compared to that in 21 matched controls. The incidence of ...

First, the ROA in MR is often dynamic and load dependent.4 In rheumatic MR, the valve is generally fibrotic, calcified and immobile, and therefore the ROA is fixed. However, in patients with dilated ...

February is American Heart Month, so I felt it was finally time to share my personal heart story. My paternal line has a long ...