Mitral annulus calcification may be an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality and was more common among older patients and those with concomitant mitral valve dysfunction, according to ...

Mitral valve dysfunction increased mortality, regardless of the presence of mitral annulus calcification. But patients with both conditions had the highest mortality, the study finds.

Of 24,414 patients evaluated with an EKG, 5,502, or 23%, had mitral annulus calcification, according to the study. Mitral valve disease was observed in 16% of those patients.

Employing intravascular lithotripsy facilitated transcatheter mitral valve replacement in a patient with severe mitral annular and mitral valve leaflet calcification, according to a report on a ...

They recently reported a case series of 24 patients with severe mitral annular calcification (MAC) and severe MS treated at Henry Ford between 2019 and 2023.

In women, there was a nonsignificant inverse association between moderate to severe mitral annular calcification and femoral neck bone mineral density.

US-based 4C Medical has enrolled the first patients in a pivotal trial for its transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) device, the AltaValve System, for treating moderate or severe mitral ...

Observational studies have suggested that moderate or severe functional tricuspid regurgitation in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation is an independent long-term risk factor for death ...

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 ...

Transapical mitral valve replacement by catheter eliminated mitral regurgitation and improved hemodynamics in a frail high-risk population, results of the SUMMIT trial show.

Abbott noted that for severe MAC patients at elevated risk for open-heart surgery, as well as those whose mitral valves could not be repaired with the company’s MitraClip device, the TMVR system ...