Out-of-hospital mortality before 30 days was 1.2%, with roughly two-thirds of these patients dying from cardiovascular causes ...

The National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS) has introduced the PASCAL transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) procedure for patients with mitral valve disease. According to NUHCS ...

A EUROPEAN post-market registry study has demonstrated that tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) using the ...

In this randomized controlled trial, a transcatheter tricuspid-valve replacement provided a mortality benefit compared to ...

Because comparative studies have demonstrated superior outcomes with mitral valve surgery, TEER should be reserved only for patients with a prohibitive surgical risk. The actual timing of surgical ...

Led by program director Marcella Calfon Press, M.D., Ph.D., associate clinical professor of cardiology, UCLA’s Transcatheter Mitral Valve/TEER Program has completed over 200 TEER procedures ...

TEER involves the use of a device (usually Mitraclip) which is delivered via a catheter to “clip” together the leaflets of the mitral valve reducing the backward flow of blood. For patients ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- In a medical breakthrough at Duke Health in Durham, a group of doctors performed the world's first living mitral valve replacement, which helped save the lives of two girls ...