Surgical repair decreased MR more than MitraClip ®. In 12-month follow-up, 20% of MitraClip patients required surgery for mitral dysfunction versus 2% in surgical patients. Both groups had ...

MitraClip was designed to spare patients from open-heart surgery by snaking hardware into the heart through a major vein. Its manufacturer, Abbott, said it offered new hope for people severely ill ...

OGDEN — Cardiologists at Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital are now performing a procedure on patients with heart failure they say is not only improving lives, but saving them as well. MitraClip is a ...

Transcatheter mitral valve repair for heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation can reduce the long-term rate of hospitalizations by almost 50 percent, and death by nearly 30 percent, compared ...

When Murray Norman started having trouble breathing in the fall of 2020, he and his wife, Joyce, never expected it to be serious enough that he might need surgery for a leaky heart valve. The problem ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—For patients with symptomatic degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) and a prohibitive surgical risk, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) with either of two approved devices ...

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In 2016, medical device giant Abbott issued a recall for its MitraClip cardiac device — “a Class I recall, the most serious type,” the FDA said. “Use of this device may cause serious injuries or death ...

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.