At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

A steady stream of structural trial data, approvals, reimbursement decisions, and real-world rollouts arrived in 2025.

At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading global cause of death, and we break down its pathology, risk factors, and the ...

Background Although chest X-rays (CXRs) are widely used, diagnosing mitral stenosis (MS) based solely on CXR findings remains ...

Other hot topics included new data on LAAO and conduction-system pacing, plus the go-ahead for ablation in ASCs.

Cardiovascular/structural heart complications Studies show that regular consumers of diet sodas and other ASBs may have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and some data link them to enlarged ...

A 50-year-old man with a history of nonischemic, dilated cardiomyopathy with severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) at 15% presents to the clinic. He has had three heart failure ...

Background: Circumferential calcification of the left atrium, commonly referred to as "porcelain atrium" or "coconut atrium," was first documented in 1898 in patients with rheumatic heart disease.

Results presented in late-breaking oral session showed danicamtiv was well tolerated with significant improvements in ventricular and atrial function in patients with genetic dilated cardiomyopathy ...