Navi Mumbai: A 78-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation has successfully undergone the MitraClip procedure, marking a significant advancement in minimally invasive heart care. The rare and ...
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals proudly announces the launch of its Heart Valve Clinic, a dedicated facility designed to ...
Sarah Joseph, 88, had no energy and could barely walk the length of her living room. Diagnosed with a faulty heart valve, ...
MitraClip® (Abbott Vascular, CA, USA), a new device for transcatheter mitral valve repair, which gained CE mark approval for use in Europe in 2008, is now approved in the USA for use in patients ...
Falls are frequently reported within the HSE. The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing(TILDA) found that 40% of over 50 s experience a fall in a two year period, with 20% requiring hospital attendance ...
In the RESHAPE-HF2 trial, 505 patients with systolic HF (left ventricular ejection fraction 20-50% and New York Heart Association [NYHA] class II-IV HF symptoms) and moderate to severe functional MR ...
In patients with symptomatic heart failure (HF) and moderate to severe functional mitral regurgitation (FMR), mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) reduced cardiovascular death and heart ...
[48] Therefore, in the 'real-world' setting it does not appear that many 'straightforward' candidates for mitral valve surgery are being referred for MitraClip. Nonetheless, even in this very sick ...