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SUBMITTER: Deuschl F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4714733 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deuschl Florian F Schofer Niklas N Lubos Edith E Blankenberg Stefan S Schäfer Ulrich U
Vascular health and risk management 20160111
The MitraClip (MC) system is a device for percutaneous, transseptal edge-to-edge reconstruction of the mitral valve (MV) in patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) not eligible for surgery. Recently, a number of studies have underlined the therapeutic benefit of the MC system for patients with extreme and high risk for MV surgery suffering from either degenerative or functional MR. The MC procedure shows negligible intraprocedural mortality, low periprocedural complication rates, and a si ...[more]