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SUBMITTER: Feldman T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288224 | biostudies-other | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Feldman Ted T Fernandes Eugene E Levisay Justin P JP
Annals of cardiothoracic surgery 20181101 6
This review outlines the first trial experience with transcatheter therapy for mitral regurgitation (MR), developed from the EVEREST II MitraClip trial in a trial population comprised predominantly of patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR). Subsequent experience with MitraClip and several other devices has been mostly in functional MR patients. At the same time, there has been ongoing experience with MitraClip in DMR, and a variety of other devices have been developed for catheter ...[more]