The mitral valve, which connects the upper and lower left-side chambers of the human heart, is one of the many pieces of the heart critical to its proper function. Mitral valve prolapse is common, and ...

FARGO - Just months ago, doctors here wouldn't have been able to repair a narrowing valve in Alice Braniff's heart. The 87-year-old woman likely wouldn't have survived open-heart surgery to replace ...

April 2 (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N), opens new tab said on Tuesday the U.S. FDA has approved its heart valve repair device for patients with a potentially fatal heart disease, just months ...

ATLANTA — Channel 2 consumer adviser Clark Howard has been telling us how to save money for more than three decades. Now he has some advice for our health. On Wednesday, Howard will have surgery for a ...

Around the time a cardiologist diagnosed Keri Mathew with a heart problem at age 4, her dad once again failed the physical required to increase his life insurance policy. So Gary Peterson went to see ...

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith underwent open heart surgery Monday to repair a defective valve that caused his heart attack in late October, the Marine Corps announced. Smith had successful ...

Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be ...