When the heart muscle relaxes, the mitral valve opens. This lets blood move from the upper chamber of the heart, or left atrium, into the lower chamber, or left ventricle. This is the chamber that ...

THE chordae tendineae serve an essential anchoring function in the mechanics of mitral-valve closure during ... infarction of the posteromedial papillary muscle associated with a small inferior ...

The study is the first globally to look at how climate change can affect each stage of the blood supply chain, based on a review of international studies. Climate change also means many diseases ...

while demand for blood could surge, a new study has found. Climate change might impact the supply and demand chain when it comes to blood transfusions, a new study has found. Researchers from ...

bringing the papillary muscles closer together,” Edwards Lifesciences explains. The dock features radiopaque markers for visualization of positioning and placement. A nitinol paravalvular leak (PVL) ...

MAD is often associated with a heart disease called mitral valve prolapse, which affects 2.5 percent of the population and causes one of the heart's valves to leak. This can lead to blood being ...

The dock wraps around the native mitral leaflets which pulls them and the chordae inward toward the center of the dock, bringing the papillary muscles closer together. The dock creates a stable and ...