The medical team performed mitral and aortic valve replacements, along with aortic root enlargement due to the small size of ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

This Santa Cruz startup raised $110 million to develop a robotic alternative to open-heart surgery. Here's how it's changing ...

Albert Starr was a world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon who performed the first triple valve surgery ... The cause of death was complications following a recent surgery, according to an ...

Starr performed thousands of cardiovascular surgeries over his 50-plus year career, including the first triple valve surgery.

To avoid the excess mortality observed after mitral valve surgery related to RVD ... wishes, and operative risk. The present analysis was based on a study of patients with severe DMR and data on RV ...

RVD was associated with a 1.6‐fold increased mortality under medical management. Of the 73% of patients who underwent mitral valve surgery, 1‐month postoperative mortality was 2.6% compared with 11.4% ...

However, there are key differences in the studies that make a 1:1 comparison difficult. For one, the patients in the RESHAPE-HF2 trial had less severe mitral valve regurgitation than did those in the ...

Mitral valve repair surgery may involve a surgeon using a ... Without treatment, it may cause complications such as stroke or atrial fibrillation. The condition may occur due to structural ...

SAN ANTONIO — A large trial has begun to make the case for active surveillance as an alternative to immediate surgery for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). At 2 years, investigators on ...

MONDAY, Dec. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) and salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) are both associated with significant improvements in outcomes among young BRCA carriers with ...

Opens in a new tab or window SAN ANTONIO -- Carriers of germline BRCA mutations diagnosed with breast cancer by age 40 who underwent risk-reducing surgeries had lower rates of mortality and breast ...