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 ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) and tricuspid regurgitation (TR) are two conditions involving backward leakage of blood through a heart valve when a ventricle contracts. People may experience either or ...

The mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle. Mitral regurgitation occurs when the mitral valve leaks blood back into the left atrium.

One such condition is mitral valve regurgitation, where the valve between the left atrium and ventricle does not close as it should. This causes some blood to leak backward, affecting the heart ...

When aortic regurgitation is severe, surgery is sometimes the recommended treatment. A surgeon will usually replace or repair the leaking aortic valve. Some people with a leaky mitral valve don't ...

MV denotes mitral valve, PPM posterior papillary muscle, and RVOT right ventricular outflow tract. Photographs courtesy of Dmitry Levin. Primary tricuspid regurgitation occurs as a result of ...

For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical ...

Common heart abnormalities treated with interventional cardiology methods include mitral valve regurgitation and aortic valve stenosis. Mitral valve regurgitation is a common form of heart valve ...

Doctors classify mitral valve regurgitation into four progressive stages. Symptoms typically don’t appear until the final stages but monitoring and treatment in earlier stages may help slow ...

Tricuspid valve regurgitation is leaking from your lower heart chamber (ventricle) to your upper heart chamber (atrium) on the right side of your heart. Typically, your tricuspid valve opens and ...