UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed two novel minimally invasive cardiac procedures for the first time in the health system.

Almost 2 years after open heart surgery Robert Hamlett hasn’t regained much of the 7kg he lost in the aftermath, and still suffers lingering nerve pain. The 83-year-old from Wellington learnt he had ...

US centers that introduced transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) for patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) did not see a significant dip in surgical repair volumes, researchers ...

The population undergoing mitral valve surgery has changed significantly, without a reduction in case volumes, since the arrival of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) as a minimally invasive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During M-TEER procedures, physicians make a small skin incision to access a vein which allows the introduction of a catheter to the heart to deliver a repair device to the diseased mitral valve.