What Is Mitral Valve Regurgitation? When your heart pumps blood, it’s supposed to follow a specific path in one direction. But sometimes, it goes the wrong way. Mitral valve regurgitation is when your ...

Our multidisciplinary cardiovascular team collaborates on mitral valve repair, transcatheter technologies, mitral valve replacement, and follow-up treatment so patients can get all their care for ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...

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 ...

The mitral valve is also known as the bicuspid valve. This is one of the heart’s four valves that help prevent blood from flowing backward as it moves through the heart. Read on to learn more about ...

Mitral valve stenosis, also known as mitral stenosis, occurs when the mitral valve opening is narrowed. This means that not enough blood can flow through it. Scarring caused by rheumatic fever is the ...

Mitral valve disease is when the heart’s mitral valve stops functioning correctly. This can lead to blood not flowing around the body correctly and cause several health complications. The mitral valve ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a common cause of a heart murmur caused by a "leaky" heart valve. Most cases of mitral valve prolapse are not serious and only need to be monitored. Mitral valve prolapse is ...

The clinical outcome of asymptomatic mitral regurgitation is poorly defined, and the treatment is uncertain. We studied the effect on the outcome of quantifying mitral regurgitation according to ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a structural change in the mitral valve of the heart. Rather than closing tightly, one or both flaps of the valve billow into the left atrium of the heart. People sometimes ...