WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral regurgitation (MR), mitral annular disjunction (MAD) is associated with an increased long-term ...

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People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mitral annulus calcification may be an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality and was more common among ...

A retrospective review of more than 24,000 patients who underwent an EKG at Mayo Clinic finds that nearly one-quarter of the patients had mitral annulus calcification, a chronic degeneration of tissue ...

• Is the chordal-sparing mitral valve (MV) replacement (CCS-MVR) procedure effective in functional mitral regurgitation and degenerative mitral valve disease? • Does the CCS-MVR procedure improve left ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The presence of mitral annular calcium was not associated with worse outcomes in patients who had transcatheter ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a condition affecting the heart. Doctors may also call it floppy mitral valve syndrome or systolic click-murmur syndrome. It stems from a mitral valve malfunction, which may ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a heart condition that occurs when the mitral valve does not close properly, allowing blood to flow backward into the left atrium. Symptoms do not always occur. When they ...

Doctors classify mitral valve regurgitation into four progressive stages. Symptoms typically don’t appear until the final stages but monitoring and treatment in earlier stages may help slow ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet ...