CHICAGO, IL—Eagerly awaited results from two percutaneous mitral valve edge-to-edge repair trials are finally cresting the horizon. It’s confirmed: MITRA-FR will be released at the 2018 European ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite similar procedural success, percutaneous mitral valve repair for post-MI mitral regurgitation was ...

Peter C. Block, M.D., F.A.C.C.; Athena Poppas, M.D., F.A.C.C. While all patients had moderate (3+) to severe (4+) MR at baseline, 64% of patients discharged with a clip had MR ≤2 after 1 month, which ...

When patients present with symptoms, or when there are objective signs of poor tolerance in patients without symptoms, surgery should be performed using as often as possible surgical mitral valve ...

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

The TMVR procedure with SAPIEN M3 involves dock and valve delivery via a percutaneous femoral vein guide sheath.

In a session at TCT 2014, two surgeons squared off over the proposal that catheter-based mitral valve therapies for mitral regurgitation (MR) will have an important clinical role in the future.

Supersecret mitral valve startup Twelve has raised $35.2 million, bringing its total raised via equity to $70 million, according to SEC filings. It's going to need that cash to support a recently ...

Sorin Group is betting on a future with percutaneous mitral valve replacement. The Italian device giant says it will invest an initial $5.4 million in HighLife SAS in France, a 2-year-old startup ...

A substantial proportion of healthy men and women had detectable valvular regurgitation by color Doppler echocardiography. Population-based studies using color Doppler show a wide range of detectable ...

The mitral valve is a complex structure encompassing the valve leaflets, annulus, chordae tendineae, and papillary muscles. 1 Primary mitral regurgitation is caused by a primary leaflet abnormality, ...