The first-of-its-kind Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 TMVR system uses a nitinol dock to anchor the replacement valve in the patient's heart.

Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of valvular heart disease and affects around 10% of Americans over 75. It occurs when the mitral ...

The Cardiac Dimensions Carillon Mitral Contour System is a minimally invasive mitral regurgitation therapy made possible by ...

the mitral valve leaflets, 3) the commissures, 4) chordae tendineae and 5) papillary muscles. The typical normal adult mitral valve area is between 4 and 5 cm 2. (Hurst’s The Heart;Chapter 50 ...

Edwards SAPIEN M3 mitral valve replacement system receives CE Mark for transcatheter treatment: Irvine, California Wednesday, ...

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW) today announced the company’s SAPIEN M3 mitral valve replacement system received ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced today that it received CE mark approval for its Sapien M3 mitral valve replacement system.

causing the mitral valve annulus to also dilate and prevent the mitral valve leaflets from properly coapting. There are many causes of left atrial and left ventricular dilation, and the treatment ...

Valve insufficiency or regurgitation happens more often in the mitral valve. When a valve leaks, the leaflets don’t close completely and some blood leaks backward rather than all of the blood flowing ...

Mitral valve prolapse occurs when portion(s) of one or both of the mitral valve leaflets or the tissue filaments (”chordae”) that hold these leaflets in place become floppy and allow these leaflet ...

In the case of mitral valve dysfunction, the result is a leakage of blood backward through in between the valve leaflets into the left atrium instead of fully flowing onwards to the ventricle.