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 ...

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 ...

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

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 ...

Valvular heart disease, also called heart valve disease, occurs when you have a diseased or damaged heart valve. When your heart pumps blood, your valves open and close to keep blood flowing in the ...

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 ...

The mitral valve performs a very important function in the workings of the heart. The valve, located on the left side of the heart, opens to allow blood to flow from the lungs into the heart, and then ...

A novel technology called intravascular lithotripsy-facilitated percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty (IVL-PBMV) shows promise for treating patients with severe calcific mitral stenosis (MS) and ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new ...