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The Structural Heart and Valve Center at NYP/Columbia has long been a leader in catheter-based treatment—the least invasive therapy—to repair the mitral valve. This valve regulates blood flow between the upper and the lower chambers on the left side of the heart. When it is damaged or defective, blood flows back up into the upper chamber, producing Mitral Regurgitation (MR).

Babies born with heart defects are now more likely to be successfully treated and grow into healthy adults. Yet this has created a new set of challenges: how to care for the first-generation who had childhood surgeries for congenital heart disease.

Today mitral valve repair has emerged as an alternative to valve replacement, and is linked to improved long-term survival in many patients.

(TAVR)—a minimally invasive method of replacing damaged aortic valves.

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center is a multidisciplinary program that offers patients essentially every treatment option.

With the proven preventability of heart disease, has it always been a major cause of death? Or are modern lifestyle and diet to blame?

CABG better than Interventional Procedures for Patients with Diabetes

Young James had the right team and the right medications, but much still remained uncertain.