Mitral valve prolapse treatments include medication to manage symptoms, lifestyle changes, and in people with severe cases, surgical intervention to repair or replace the mitral valve. Mitral valve ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

An international study of more than 400 adults concludes that people who undergo mitral valve surgery (between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart) and also have less than severe ...