But sometimes, the mitral valve doesn’t seal properly when it closes. This creates a leak that allows blood to flow backward through it, returning to the left atrium. When this happens ...

The tricuspid valve controls blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle. The bicuspid or mitral valve does the same on the left. The heart consists of four chambers. The left and ...

What Is Mitral Valve Prolapse? The mitral valve is a valve that lets blood flow from one chamber of the heart, the left atrium, to another called the left ventricle. In mitral valve prolapse ...

Mitral Valve Stenosis: The valve becomes too narrow, restricting proper blood flow. Think of the mitral valve as a one-way door with two flaps. In regurgitation, the door fails to close tightly ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that it received FDA approval for its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR ...

The FDA approved Abbott's Tendyne minimally invasive heart replacement for mitral valve disease that could disqualify ...

The FDA gave the OK for the North Chicago-based medical device maker's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement.

What is that? Should I be worried? Dear Reader: Mitral valve prolapse is a condition that interferes with the one-way flow of blood through two of the four chambers of the heart. As the name ...

there is less resistance to blood flow from the LV through the aortic valve; this means less blood regurgitates through the mitral valve, thereby decreasing the intensity of the murmur.

Three girls with major heart problems are thriving after one received a donor heart and then gave healthy valves from her ...

What is that? Should I be worried? DEAR READER: Mitral valve prolapse is a condition that interferes with the one-way flow of blood through two of the four chambers of the heart. As the name ...