AUSTIN -- Imagine struggling to breathe and getting worse every day. Four million Americans suffer from a condition called mitral valve regurgitation which causes blood to flow backward in the heart.

After four years, patients with Abbott's ($ABT) MitraClip cardiac device required additional operations, and the benefits of the device were no better than those of ...

A 58-year-old Iraqi man, Hadi Mustafa Hamad, underwent a revolutionary heart procedure at Paras Health Gurugram, which ...

BOSTON, MA — Four-year follow-up of the Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair Study II (EVEREST II) show no differences in the primary end point between the MitraClip (Abbott) procedure and surgery ...

Allegheny General Hospital and UPMC Presbyterian Hospital are the first in the region to offer a minimally invasive heart surgery that allows physicians to operate as the heart beats. The MitraClip is ...

Results Show Treatment Provides Clinical Benefits and Improves Quality of Life for Patients with Debilitating Mitral Valve Disease Who Are at Prohibitive Surgical Risk ABBOTT PARK, Ill. -- Abbott ...

In symptomatic patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) at high surgical risk, transcatheter valve repair and surgery result in similarly high rates of survival, according to a study published ...

Mary Johnson is determined to live an independent, active lifestyle, even at the age of 85. She's a great-grandmother who doesn't like being told what she can and can't do. She likes to garden, ...

April 5, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana)-Results from the EVEREST IItrial out to two years show that percutaneous repair of the mitral valve with the MitraClip (Abbott) device was significantly less ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A tiny heart clip that can fix a leaky heart valve and save hundreds of thousands of lives appears to be a game-changer for heart failure patients. The clip is for a failing ...

A new type of heart surgery that uses a tiny clip to mend leaking valves has arrived in Nevada. Pahrump resident Gary Wilson, 79, on Wednesday became the first patient in the state to have the device, ...

A critically ill 58-year-old Iraqi patient with just 15% heart function and multi-organ failure recovered after a high-risk ...