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.

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Abbott said Tuesday it received Food and Drug Administration approval for the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement system to treat calcium buildup in the ring that supports the heart valve.

SAN FRANCISCO — In two forms of severe mitral valve disease with high rates of mortality and limited treatment options, multicenter trials with novel transcatheter devices produced what experts ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a structural change in the mitral valve of the heart. Rather than closing tightly, one or both flaps of the valve billow into the left atrium of the heart. People sometimes ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

Mitral-valve repair can be accomplished with an investigational procedure that involves the percutaneous implantation of a clip that grasps and approximates the edges of the mitral leaflets at the ...