ALLMedicine™ Mitral Regurgitation Center

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Nowadays micro-invasive-procedures (off-pump, beating-heart) for mitral valve repair (MVRe) are abruptly expanding with the potential to be adopted as a valuable alternative to surgery. In the present manuscript, the authors review the available t...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - A 54-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with a prolonged dypsnea, orthopnoea, and chest pain that has lasted for almost 2 weeks. Physical examination revealed symptoms of heart failure. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a ventricular...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - Concerns regarding long-term durability of surgical repair for functional mitral regurgitation are based on short-term data, with few comparisons of ischemic (IMR) versus non-ischemic (NIFMR) etiology. 788 consecutive patients receiving mitral rep...

Sep 21st, 2021 - Our study aims to examine the midterm outcomes of the loop technique for extended mitral valve (MV) prolapse patients. From October 2008 to August 2020, we performed MV repairs in 407 patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR). Follow-up range...

Sep 19th, 2021 - We report a bilateral thoracoscopic technique in which robot-assisted mitral valve repair was achieved concomitantly with stapler division of the large left atrial appendage. The patient was a 65-year-old male with severe mitral regurgitation, par...

Feb 19th, 2020 - Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a complex valve lesion that can pose significant management challenges. This expert consensus decision pathway emphasizes that recognition of MR should prompt an assessment of its etiology, mechanism, and severity, as ...

Feb 10th, 2020 - In this update, we focus on selected topics of high clinical relevance for health care providers who treat patients with heart failure (HF), on the basis of clinical trials published after 2017. Our objective was to review the evidence, and provid...

Feb 18th, 2014 - Transcatheter therapies for mitral regurgitation: a professional society overview from the American College of Cardiology, The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Foundation, and The ...

Sep 12th, 2013 - The interventional treatment of mitral valve regurgitation by the MitraClip procedure has grown rapidly in Germany and Europe during the past years. The MitraClip procedure has the potential to treat high-risk patients with secondary mitral valve ...

Jul 12th, 2021 - Secondary mitral regurgitation (sMR) is common in patients with heart failure (HF) and is associated with increased mortality, but it is undertreated, according to a new study. Investigators analyzed data from more than 13,000 HF patients in an Au...

May 24th, 2021 - Transcatheter mitral valve repair with the PASCAL device showed high rates of survival and freedom from heart failure rehospitalization at 2 years in the single-arm, safety and efficacy CLASP study. The early reductions in mitral regurgitation (MR...

Dec 7th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Reports of signs of heart failure in adults with COVID-19 have been rare — just four such cases have been published since the outbreak started in ...

Oct 19th, 2020 - Percutaneous mitral valve repair with the MitraClip appears to be a safe, effective, and life-saving new treatment for severe acute mitral regurgitation (MR) secondary to MI in surgical noncandidates, even when accompanied by cardiogenic shock, ac...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Among the landmark presentations at the recent European Society of Cardiology virtual congress was the presentation on the EXPLORER-HCM randomized controlled trial. In this study, simultaneously published in The Lancet, the investigational drug ma...