The chordae tendineae (CT), often referred to as the “heart strings,” are thin, tendinous structures that connect the heart ...

Capstan Medical, a startup focused on robotic-assisted mitral and tricuspid valve replacement, recently completed its first patient implants.

The mitral valve is the most commonly repaired ... When you have aortic or pulmonic heart valve disease, valve replacement surgery is usually performed. In some cases, the aortic valve can be ...

including mitral valve surgery, at a level that's so high-performing that patients don't have to leave here to go anywhere else in the country." Mitral valve repair is one of the most challenging ...

The Duke team performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant, which Duke ...

Journi Kelly, 11, needed a new heart. But her heart valves helped 2 other girls and allowed doctors to perform the 1st living mitral valve replacement.

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

Our Professor of Surgery, J. Englebert Dunphy ... and had two previous attempts at mitral-valve repair. The operation was easier than in the animal laboratory, and she was returned to a converted ...

One valve went to 14-year-old Margaret Van Bruggen, a cross-country runner from Charlotte, N.C., who urgently needed a mitral valve replacement ... professor of surgery at Duke University School ...

In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world's first living mitral valve replacement ... professor of surgery at Duke University School ...

Mitral valve replacement is a type of partial heart ... Duke Health via family "Before Journi's surgery, we were told the doctors were hoping to try a new procedure and asked if we were willing ...