Corewell Health has successfully performed the world’s first documented single-port robotic mitral valve repair, marking a major milestone in the evolution of minimally invasive heart surgery.

Royal Oak resident Patrick O’Brien underwent the first single-port robotic mitral valve repair on June 30.

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

MANCHESTER — Robotic-assisted mitral valve surgery achieved excellent long-term repair durability while significantly reducing intensive care and hospital stays compared with conventional minimally ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a serious heart condition that often requires corrective surgery. It is characterized by the backflow or "regurgitation" of blood from the heart's left ventricle into the ...

Surgeons at Corewell Health in Metro Detroit have performed what the health system says is the world’s first documented ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...

A new study found that older patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than those who received medical management alone, ...

Patients who require treatment to address failed bioprosthetic mitral valves have comparable 30-day outcomes no matter whether it’s a transcatheter valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure or a repeat surgical ...