Benefits Of MitraClip For Patients With Mitral Regurgitation Shown By New Data

The vast majority of patients who had a successful result with the percutaneous MitraClip device did not need mitral valve surgery three years after their procedure, and many benefited from significantly improved function of the left ventricle (commonly known as reverse remodeling), according to data presented at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s (CRF) nineteenth annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) symposium in Washington, D.C. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on October 28th, 2007