Life became increasingly difficult for those patients who were facing chronic heart problems. Mitral valve leakage or regurgitation is the most common valvular heart disease. With a global prevalence ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for the MitraClip (Abbott) device to include patients with normal mitral valves who develop symptoms of heart failure and moderate ...

Abbott Laboratories has received approval for a mitral valve replacement that can be implanted without open-heart surgery. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration gave the OK for the North Chicago-based ...

NEW ORLEANS — To much acclaim, the COAPT trial demonstrated that use of the MitraClip (Abbott) in a very sick population with symptomatic (heart failure (HF) and secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) ...

Abbott has initiated a voluntary safety notice regarding the MitraClip Delivery System to reinforce the proper procedures used to operate and deploy the device. The company received a small number of ...

Instead, the 76-year-old Wahoo, Nebraska, woman underwent a procedure that repaired the valve via a blood vessel in her leg. A cardiologist threaded a catheter up into her heart and used a device ...

The Tendyne system replaces mitral valves that are not functioning properly due to a buildup of calcium in the base of the valves, known as severe mitral annular calcification (MAC) Tendyne offers a ...