Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

What is the function of our heart valves? Our heart valves are what transfer our blood from chamber to chamber in the heart along with delivering blood to the larger arteries. The valves open and ...

Left Atrial "Pinball" Thrombus Causing Recurrent Syncope. Aberrant right coronary artery in a grown up congenital cardiac patient, successfully treated 46 years earlier with a double Starr-Edwards ...

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 ...

Dr Paul Chiam, interventional cardiologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, talks about a minimally invasive approach to treating leaking heart valves. For patients with heart valve disease, the main ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...