A 78-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation has successfully undergone the MitraClip procedure, marking a ...

In such complicated cases, the traditional open-heart surgery is usually the option, but the Mitraclip is a breakthrough innovative catheter-based technology with a less invasive approach that has ...

MitraClip® (Abbott Vascular, CA, USA), a new device for transcatheter mitral valve repair, which gained CE mark approval for use in Europe in 2008, is now approved in the USA for use in patients ...

[48] Therefore, in the 'real-world' setting it does not appear that many 'straightforward' candidates for mitral valve surgery are being referred for MitraClip. Nonetheless, even in this very sick ...