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Raipur: The cardio surgery department of state-run Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital successfully performed a challenging open heart surgery on a .

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Vietnam Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Market Key Takeaways: ...

is noninferior to mitral valve (MV) surgery in patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation at 1 year. Patient selection is key for success of any surgical or percutaneous MV ...

Participants were randomized to mitral TEER or surgery, with 72% of those in the surgical group undergoing mitral valve repair and 28% undergoing mitral valve replacement. Results found no significant ...

In addition, before the development of prosthetic mitral-valve replacement, pure or predominant mitral regurgitation could not consistently be relieved by operation, and although it was clear that ...

Surgery is recommended upon dysfunction of the mitral valve with important stenosis or insufficiency, embolic events or when other types of tumors cannot be excluded regardless of the imaging method ...

previous surgery) were until recently predestined to conservative treatment. The promising results in the field of aortic and mitral valve percutaneous interventions in high-risk patients have ...