A keyhole surgery procedure for mitral valve disease has been rolled out across the NHS this week after a decade-long delay due to funding struggles. The procedure, trans-catheter edge-to-edge repair ...

PHOENIX, AZ—The risks of surgical reintervention for a failed mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) are “not negligible,” a new analysis of the CUTTING-EDGE registry confirms, with ...

When one of the heart's valves springs a big leak, that can spell big trouble. The good news: The condition, known as degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR), is treatable using a minimally invasive ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have finalized a new National Coverage Determination for tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) in patients suffering from symptomatic ...

For multiple outcome measures, including in-hospital and 30-day mortality, just 1 in 9 hospitals had a similar ranking for TAVI and M-TEER, with most hospitals having discordant track records for the ...

Edwards Lifesciences can say two things about its Pascal Precision Valve Repair System. The first is that the technology has FDA approval and the second is that in a study, the device showed its ...

"The procedure is getting many patients back to a more energetic life, and back to activities some haven't been able to do for years." To treat mitral valve regurgitation —a condition affecting more ...

Their findings on the condition called degenerative mitral regurgitation were published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), representing the largest study to ...

A new eight-item score may predict mortality after transcatheter edge-to-edge (TEER) repair of the mitral valve, new research shows. The investigators found the "MitraScore" was also predictive for ...

A life-saving medical procedure called Trans-catheter Edge-to-edge Repair (or TEER) for a common heart complaint is not available to many patients it could help. Terminology on the current NHS ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Access to transcatheter edge-to-edge repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation did not impact annualized ...