In 2013, the FDA approved an implantable device to treat leaky heart valves. Among its inventors was Mehmet Oz, the former television personality and former U.S. Senate candidate widely known as "Dr.

The EVEREST II investigators have published the findings of their substudy assessing MitraClip® (Evalve, Menlo Park, CA, USA) use in symptomatic patients with severe or moderate-to-severe mitral ...

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PHOENIX -- Newer MitraClip devices reduced mitral regurgitation (MR) to no more than a trace for nearly all patients, regardless of anatomical complexity or presence of advanced heart failure, in a ...

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A little device is about to make a big difference in millions of lives. Mitral regurgitation occurs when the valve that separates the main pumping chamber of the heart from the lungs is unable to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transcatheter mitral valve repair improved outcomes and symptoms in patients with moderate to severe mitral ...

Abbott Laboratories ABT recently announced FDA approval for its latest version of MitraClip heart valve repair device to treat mitral regurgitation (MR). With the approval for the fourth-generation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Transcatheter mitral valve repair for patients with HF and severe secondary mitral regurgitation ...

BOSTON, MA — Four-year follow-up of the Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair Study II (EVEREST II) show no differences in the primary end point between the MitraClip (Abbott) procedure and surgery ...

Failed transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of functional and degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) with the MitraClip (Abbott) is relatively uncommon at high-volume centers but associated with a high ...

Two weeks ago, Hawera farmer Glen Williamson could barely stagger 300m. He struggled to breathe, his legs were cold and clammy and he was as pale as a ghost. “I looked like a walking corpse,” he says.