Ronald Wharton, MD: Greetings from the Bronx. This is Dr Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and I am sharing a case which I ...

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 ...

A small orifice area on its own should not dissuade operators from offering the procedure as an option, a researcher says.

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 ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

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 ...

Background Rheumatic mitral valve disease remains a major global health challenge. Determining optimal surgical approaches is ...

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 ...

Primary results of the ENCIRCLE trial led to approval of the M3 device by the US Food and Drug Administration as the first ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

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 ...