New Orleans, LA - The first experience in humans of a new percutaneous technique for mitral valve repair has been described at the American College of Cardiology 2004 Scientific Sessions here today.

Study sites were required to have experience with percutaneous interventions, transseptal punctures, and mitral-valve surgery, along with a strong multidisciplinary clinical team. All ...

Surgical valve repair for mitral regurgitation (MR) has been used for decades. Percutaneous approaches to mitral valve repair have been undergoing evaluation in trials over the last few years ...

Dr. Poppas: I'm Athena Pappas for CVN. I'm with Dr. Peter Block and we're talking about various approaches to percutaneous mitral valve repair. Peter, there are various types of valve pathology ...

Recent years have seen major advances in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Several new catheter-based techniques are now being clinically evaluated, including percutaneous endovascular ...

Surgical revision after percutaneous mitral valve repair with a clip: initial multicenter experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Dec;80(6):2338-42.

2.2.1 The aim of percutaneous mitral valve annuloplasty is to place an intravascular device percutaneously into the coronary sinus (the large vein that forms at the level of the posterior mitral ...

Opens in a new tab or window PHOENIX -- Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) at baseline was linked to poorer outcomes after percutaneous mitral valve repair and didn't improve for most patients afterward ...

The AHA states that a person usually recovers from heart valve surgery in 4–8 weeks. Recovery time may be shorter for people who have MIMVS or percutaneous mitral valve repair. A doctor may ...

The FDA gave the OK for the North Chicago-based medical device maker's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement.

Percutaneous mitral valve repair was introduced only a few years ago and can use two different approaches. The first approach is the edge-to-edge technique, which creates a double mitral valve ...