What Is Mitral Valve Regurgitation? When your heart pumps blood, it’s supposed to follow a specific path in one direction. But sometimes, it goes the wrong way. Mitral valve regurgitation is when your ...
What Is Heart Valve Disease? Heart valve disease is when one or more of your heart valves don't work the way they should. Your heart has four valves: pulmonary, tricuspid, aortic, and mitral. Your ...
The normal heart has four valves that control blood flow through the chambers of the heart. Valves open to allow blood to flow through, then close tightly to prevent blood from leaking backward. If a ...
Based on the results from the MATTERHORN (A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Study to Assess Mitral Valve Reconstruction for Advanced Insufficiency of Functional or Ischemic Origin), transcatheter ...
1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London , UK 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College ...
The tricuspid valve has historically received less attention compared to the valves on the left side of the heart. Tricuspid valve disease, however, is more common than previously thought, and if left ...