Secondary or functional mitral valve regurgitation. In this type, there’s nothing wrong with your mitral valve, but a problem elsewhere in your heart prevents it from functioning properly.

Patients with Stage C mitral stenosis with amenable valve morphology, no thrombus in the left atrium, and mild (below angiographic grade 2+) or no mitral regurgitation (Otto CM, et al. Circulation ...

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 ...

Concomitant surgical management of rheumatic tricuspid regurgitation at the time of mitral-valve surgery reduces the progression of tricuspid regurgitation if the baseline disease is mild, 50 with ...

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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 ...

Because mitral regurgitation is slowly progressive, deciding when to operate -- neither too early, nor too late -- can be difficult. Leaky Heart Valve and Tricuspid Regurgitation Many healthy ...

While previous trials have led to questions surrounding the potential benefits of valve interventions in mitral or tricuspid regurgitation, a pair of trials presented recently demonstrate their ...

Transapical mitral valve replacement by catheter eliminated mitral regurgitation and improved hemodynamics in a frail high-risk population, results of the SUMMIT trial show.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – News4JAX meteorologist Katie Garner opened up to viewers Friday about her recent heart condition diagnosis. Katie was diagnosed with Mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation ...