April 1, 2008 (Chicago, IL) - Two-year results from the Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair Study (EVEREST) trial of the MitraClip (Evalve Inc, Redwood City, CA) in patients with functional mitral ...

The findings provide contemporary surgical benchmarks, which will become even more important as M-TEER trial data emerge.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An experimental minimally invasive technique developed by Abbott Laboratories to repair the most common type of heart valve problem appeared to be as durable as surgical repair ...

Cardiologist/Sherpa Dr Ted Feldman (Evanston Hospital, IL) presented the EVEREST II data, a study comparing a percutaneous approach to standard surgical repair for mitral-valve leak. EVEREST is a ...

When one of the heart's valves springs a big leak, that can spell big trouble. The good news: The condition, known as degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR), is treatable using a minimally invasive ...

Simple tasks such as cooking, cleaning and walking to the mailbox are not so simple for people with symptoms of severe mitral regurgitation, a condition that causes blood to leak backward into the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 – A percutaneous mitral valve clip designed to stop mitral valve regurgitation demonstrated clinical benefit as measured by the degree of mitral regurgitation, ...

Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as ...

ATLANTA — Many people in the U.S. with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and ...