CHARLESTON, S.C. — Ever been to a large sporting event, such as a football or baseball game with 60,000 screaming fans? What you don’t hear through the screams is a clicking sound in the chests of ...

LONDON — Opinions about the relative value of interventions to control mitral regurgitation secondary to heart failure might be altered by two large randomized trials. The RESHAPE-HF2 trial showed ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system for the treatment of patients with mitral valve dysfunction, device manufacturer ...

Your heart has four chambers, two on the right and two on the left. Blood flows into the right side of the heart, then to the lungs where it receives oxygen. From the lungs it flows into the left ...

Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is leading the way in bringing leading-edge research to rural communities. The APOLLO trial offers a new, minimally invasive option for mitral ...

One of the most common signs of heart valve disease is shortness of breath. Some people notice this when they are walking, ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • About 40 years ago, when I was in my 30s, I was examined by a famous heart doctor who went over me with great care and concluded I had mitral valve prolapse. He put me on medicine, ...

Terri Lohmeyer now has a sparkle in her eye. There hasn’t been much sparkle in the last several years, outside of the birth of her great-grandchildren. That’s because the 65-year-old Hutchinson woman ...

You can develop shortness of breath if you have heart valve problems. This is because your heart valves help move blood through the four chambers of your heart and throughout your body. Your heart ...