Mitral valve regurgitation is when your blood isn’t going where it should. With this condition, some of it leaks backward instead of flowing out to the rest of your body. You may feel tired and out of ...

ALTHOUGH Fauvel, 1 in 1843, attributed the apical presystolic murmur to stenosis of the mitral valve, Duroziez's 2 description — "ffout-tata-rou" — in 1862 has been considered as the classic ...

Mitral valve disease is when the heart’s mitral valve stops functioning correctly. This can lead to blood not flowing around the body correctly and cause several health complications. The mitral valve ...

The heart consists of four chambers, two atria and two ventricles. The atrium of each side is connected with the ventricle, and the blood flow between the two is controlled by valves Mild cases of ...

Dear Doctors: I’ve been getting dizzy when I exercise or even stand up too fast. I got sent to a cardiologist who says it’s mitral valve stenosis. He thinks I’m a good candidate for a catheter repair ...

Hello and greetings from Bronx, New York. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I thought I'd share with you something ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy was associated with significantly better results at 20 years in patients with ...

Patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) who were left with high gradients after a MitraClip procedure were not inherently at a disadvantage in their subsequent clinical outcomes, according ...

Testing by Rutgers Health and other institutions is reshaping how – and how gently – doctors repair failing valves ...