A true test of durability will take many more years, but if the valve holds up, it’s “potentially a game changer,” say ...

The study led to questions about whether patients would be best served by being treated at high-volume centers of excellence.

Using a single TriClip steerable guide catheter (SGC), operators saw promising results in a few dozen patients undergoing ...

The ordinary stethoscope that is called acoustic stethoscope can detect heart sound and plung in order to know their health condition. However, the doctor diagnostics result depends on sensitivity of ...

Transthoracic echocardiogram identified characteristics of severe generalized left ventricular systolic dysfunction, with an ejection fraction of 20%, significant secondary mitral regurgitation ...

The mitral and tricuspid valves then open to allow forward blood flow within the heart to fill the ventricles again. What is heart valve disease? Heart valve disorders can arise from 2 main types of ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Heart sounds are the noises made as blood moves through the heart with each heartbeat. When the heart valves close, they make a distinct lubb-dupp sound.

In 1961, K Merendino ‘in pure curiosity’, while tracking the murmur of mitral regurgitation, placed his stethoscope ‘on the vertex of the head’, and ultimately led to a medical curiosity and exam ...

Another classic finding of mitral regurgitation is a holosystolic murmur, best heard at the apex of the stethoscope's diaphragm. With a holosystolic murmur, the extra heart sound starts after S1 and ...

Mitral valve prolapse, also known as click-murmur syndrome, Barlow's syndrome, balloon mitral valve, or floppy valve syndrome, is the bulging of one or both of the mitral valve flaps (leaflets) into ...

This can sometimes cause blood to leak backward into the left atrium, known as mitral regurgitation. Although MVP is often symptomless and harmless, it may cause symptoms in some people.