CHARLESTON, S.C. — Ever been to a large sporting event, such as a football or baseball game with 60,000 screaming fans? What you don’t hear through the screams is a clicking sound in the chests of ...

LONDON — Opinions about the relative value of interventions to control mitral regurgitation secondary to heart failure might be altered by two large randomized trials. The RESHAPE-HF2 trial showed ...

Your heart has four chambers, two on the right and two on the left. Blood flows into the right side of the heart, then to the lungs where it receives oxygen. From the lungs it flows into the left ...

Cardiac surgeons at Yale New Haven Hospital have performed 200 robotic-assisted mitral valve procedures with a 100 percent success rate, meaning that no procedures were converted to an open surgery.

The mitral valve performs a very important function in the workings of the heart. The valve, located on the left side of the heart, opens to allow blood to flow from the lungs into the heart, and then ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • About 40 years ago, when I was in my 30s, I was examined by a famous heart doctor who went over me with great care and concluded I had mitral valve prolapse. He put me on medicine, ...

Left: Doctors perform heart surgery on Terri Lohmeyer of Hutchinson using a new device on Nov. 16 at Ascension Via Christi. Right: Lohmeyer, who was expected to die without the heart operation, ...

An international study of more than 400 adults concludes that people who undergo mitral valve surgery (between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart) and also have less than severe ...

Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after starting the surgery?

Terri Lohmeyer now has a sparkle in her eye. There hasn’t been much sparkle in the last several years, outside of the birth of her great-grandchildren. That’s because the 65-year-old Hutchinson woman ...