Mitral Valve Prolapse: Implications for the Primary Care Physician.

American Family Physician;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......have severe mitral regurgitation associated with...and subsequent mitral valve surgery. A 32-year...variant. Yet mitral valve prolapse has...endocarditis, severe mitral regurgitation requiring mitral...diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse ...

Current Management of Mitral Valve Prolapse.

American Family Physician;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Mitral valve prolapse...abnormality of the mitral valve apparatus...leaflet motion. Mitral valve prolapse...constellation of mitral valve prolapse...recognizing that mitral valve prolapse...both terms. Mitral valve prolapse...or without ...

Mitral Valve Replacement: A Case Report

AANA Journal;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......58-year-old woman with mitral regurgitation secondary to...replacement of the mitral valve. A graded induction...management. Keywords: Mitral valve, mitral regurgitation, mitral valve replacement. Mitral regurgitation (MR) is the most...

Six-Month Data Supports Further Study of Clip Device for Non-Surgical...

PR Newswire;  March 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......patients whose mitral regurgitation (MR) was significantly...surgery-free. Mitral regurgitation is a debilitating...occurs when the mitral valve, which allows...Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair Using...with severe mitral regurgitation have been ...

Medicine usually controls mitral valve regurgitation

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 29, 1989 ;     279 words ...Q. I have mitral valve regurgitation. What is the treatment...Otherwise, I'm in good health. A. Mitral valve regurgitation arises from a weakening of the mitral valve, the one that prevents blood backup...emerged a split second before. That's mitral regurgitation. ...

Evalve Announces New Data Showing its First-in-Class Percutaneous...

PR Newswire;  October 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of treating mitral regurgitation in the cardiac...patients avoided mitral valve surgery * Improving...versus surgical mitral valve repair or replacement...reduction in mitral regurgitation in appropriate...necessary. About Mitral Regurgitation MR, the ...

U-CLIP(TM) Expedites Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair.

PR Newswire;  March 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......world's first sutureless mitral annuloplasty repair...the robotic-assisted mitral valve repair in record time...open minimally invasive mitral valve repair to a greater...procedures performed on the mitral valve, which regulates blood...indication for surgery is mitral ...

Relationship between mitral valve regurgitant flow and peripartum change...

Southern Medical Journal;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Mitral regurgitation is usually...patient with mitral regurgitation who had pulmonary...patients with mitral regurgitation...patient with mitral regurgitation initially...augmentation of mitral valve regurgitation...gestation. (3) Mitral ...

Echocardiographic evaluation of mitral valve in patients with pure...

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......structure of the mitral valve (MV) and subvalvar...with rheumatic mitral regurgitation (MR) by echocardiography...and without mitral valve prolapse (MVP...rheumatic carditis, mitral regurgitation, mitral valve...with rheumatic mitral ...

Massachusetts Inventors Develop Mitral Valve Function Improvement Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 27, 2006 ;     242 words ......an apparatus for reducing mitral regurgitation. According to the U.S. Patent...posterior leaflet of the mitral valve, the apparatus being adapted...leaflet coaptation and reduce mitral regurgitation." The inventors were issued...

Massachusetts Inventors Develop Mitral Valve Function Improvement...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 22, 2007 ;     244 words ......an apparatus for reducing mitral regurgitation. According to the U.S. Patent...posterior leaflet of the mitral valve, the apparatus being adapted...leaflet coaptation and reduce mitral regurgitation." The inventors were issued...

Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Mitral Regurgitation...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 8, 2007 ;     255 words ......an apparatus for reducing mitral regurgitation. According to the U.S. Patent...posterior leaflet of the mitral valve, the apparatus being adapted...leaflet coaptation and reduce mitral regurgitation." The inventors were issued...

Should You Heed the Murmurs?; Mitral Valve Prolapse, Though Widely...

The Washington Post;  December 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......s death was caused by mitral valve prolapse (MVP), a condition...the U.S. population has mitral valve prolapse. A large majority...basic mechanics of the mitral valve. Seated between the left...into the atrium. This "mitral regurgitation" makes a murmuring ...

New Data Shows Ongoing Benefits of Percutaneous MitraClip(R) Device for...

PR Newswire;  October 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......did not need mitral valve surgery three...reduction of mitral regurgitation severity with...to surgical mitral valve repair or replacement...treatment of mitral regurgitation (MR; a condition...work to reduce mitral regurgitation with a percutaneous...or ...

Tennessee Inventor Develops Mitral Valve Defects Repairing Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 16, 2007 ;     343 words ......Office: "Devices and methods are provided for diagnosing and repairing mitral valve defects such as mitral valve regurgitation. According to an exemplary method, mitral valve function is visualized by transesophageal echocardiography. A catheter...