DAIC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Many patients with symptoms of mitral regurgitation are not candidates for open heart surgery due to their advanced age or competing comorbidities, nor are they candidates for the only alternative, the MitraClip device. Your heart has four valves that move blood in and out of its four chambers.

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Heart Valves Bicuspid/Mitral Academic Chest Pain 116

DAIC

JANUARY 24, 2024

Barr’s death at 39 from sudden cardiac arrest was caused by mitral valve prolapse—a heart valve defect that can affect the heart’s ability to pump blood. The PRIMARY trial is directed by Joanna Chikwe, MD, chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai. It can, in some cases, lead to death.

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Bicuspid/Mitral Research Heart Valves Cardiac Arrest 105

DAIC

JUNE 10, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 06/10/2024 - 17:58 June 10, 2024 — Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute has successfully completed the first commercial tricuspid clip procedure in the Carolinas, performed in May at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center. This procedure has since become a cornerstone in the field of structural heart interventions.

Heart Valves 109

Heart Valves Tricuspid Open-Heart Surgery Quality of Life 109

DAIC

JANUARY 4, 2024

These key takeaways from the research letter on IVL-facilitated valvuloplasty for severely calcified mitral valve stenosis are published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) Cardiovascular Interventions. an interventional cardiologist and structural heart disease expert at Henry Ford Health. “We

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Heart Valves Bicuspid/Mitral Open-Heart Surgery Stenosis 119

MIBHS

MARCH 29, 2024

Known as an alternative to open heart surgery, minimally invasive surgery is preferred by many patients. It involves tiny incisions that allow a surgeon to access the heart between the rib bones. Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER): TEER focuses on the mitral valve.

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Open-Heart Surgery Aortic valve Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Bicuspid/Mitral 52

DAIC

JUNE 21, 2024

The EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement system is a device designed to treat patients with severe leaking of the tricuspid valve, known as tricuspid regurgitation, without open heart surgery.

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Tricuspid Quality of Life Open-Heart Surgery Interventional Cardiology 105

DAIC

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image courtesy of Henry Ford Health milla1cf Wed, 02/21/2024 - 19:07 February 21, 2024 — An 80-year-old woman from Frankenmuth, Michigan is the first Henry Ford Health structural heart disease patient—and the first ever in Michigan—to receive a new transcatheter heart valve device for treating severe tricuspid regurgitation.

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Heart Failure Open-Heart Surgery Tricuspid Heart Disease 105