Margaret Van Bruggen (left), Kensley Frizzell (center), and Journi Kelly (right) pictured after "domino" heart surgeries. Kelly received a donor heart and donated the mitral valves of her original ...

The Sapien M3 device is the first approved mitral regurgitation treatment to use a transseptal approach, Edwards said.

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 ...

Edwards Lifesciences has been awarded CE mark for the Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system. The approval is for the transcatheter treatment of patients with symptomatic (moderate-to-severe or ...

For high-risk surgical patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR), insertion of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR; Abbott) using a cardiac transapical approach ...

For two days at the end of 2024, Journi Kelly, 11, complained about stomach pain. Worried, mom Rachel Kinsey took her to the emergency room. “Her symptoms became full throttle to the point that she ...

Three North Carolina girls were saved by a single donated heart Living valves can grow with the child, reducing the need for repeat surgeries MONDAY, March, 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- In a ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...

When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For conditions such as truncus ...

Three girls with major heart problems are thriving after one received a donor heart and then gave healthy valves from her ...