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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To TCTMD, Popma said the Carillon device is easy to implant into the coronary sinus, safe, and doesn’t preclude future treatment options like TEER or transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR).

Cardiac Dimensions announced today that it closed an oversubscribed Series E financing round worth $53 million.

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 ...

In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement.