Polares Medical has secured $50m through a Series C financing round to further support the development of its novel cardiac transcatheter implant, MRace, for patients with mitral regurgitation (MR).

Posterior mitral valve leaflet aneurysms are extremely rare complications of infective endocarditis of the aortic valve. Destruction of the aortic valve results in a regurgitant jet that strikes the ...

The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle. Mitral valve regurgitation (MR) happens when the valve doesn't close properly, allowing blood to flow back into the ...

Very early results with a minimally invasive chordal replacement procedure suggest that the beating-heart, echo-guided procedure may emerge as another option for treating degenerative mitral valve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Employing intravascular lithotripsy facilitated transcatheter mitral valve replacement in a patient with severe ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...

WASHINGTON -- Operators can avoid two feared complications of transcatheter valve replacement with upfront radiofrequency-based laceration of the aortic or mitral leaflets, according to two early ...

The findings provide contemporary surgical benchmarks, which will become even more important as M-TEER trial data emerge.

This procedure works well for mitral regurgitation and there are no serious concerns about its safety for patients who cannot have open surgery. Mitral regurgitation happens when the mitral valve in ...