Physicians can now close certain types of leaky heart valves through a tiny puncture in the groin, using live 3D imaging for precise guidance. This combination treatment is an alternative to open ...

Guidelines regarding the management of patients with valvular heart disease have been published by the European Society of Cardiology and EACTS.

“The latest EchoNavigator release gives us unique peri-interventional possibilities by offering a comprehensive set of automated views based on advanced 3D heart models in combination with live fusion ...

Previous studies have shown that transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior to transthroracic echocardiography (TTE) when assessing the feasibility of mitral valve repair and predicting ...

INTRODUCTION Severe functional ischemic mitral regurgitation (FIMR) considerably worsens the prognosis of patients after myocardial infarction. The complex pathomechanism of FIMR and its dynamic ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Tang GHL, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024;Epub ahead of print. At a time when 3D intracardiac echo (3D-ICE) is gaining traction in structural interventions, a new ...

TCT 1459: Valve-in-Valve With High Risk of Double Coronary Obstruction in a Degenerated Self Expandable Evolut R TAVR Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from major meetings right ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery? Minimally invasive heart valve surgery is a type of surgery performed through smaller incisions. This type of surgery reduces blood loss, ...

Beta-blockers may be able to treat mitral valve regurgitation medically and prevent the early stages of heart failure often seen in these patients — without valve-replacement surgery, according to ...