A 58-year-old Iraqi man, Hadi Mustafa Hamad, underwent a revolutionary heart procedure at Paras Health Gurugram, which ...

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 ...

AUSTIN -- Imagine struggling to breathe and getting worse every day. Four million Americans suffer from a condition called mitral valve regurgitation which causes blood to flow backward in the heart.

Hospitals that perform a larger number of transcatheter mitral valve repairs (TMVRs) with the MitraClip (Abbott) have significantly better procedural success, as well as shorter procedural times and ...

The patient, identified as Hadi Mustafa Hamad, was suffering from unstable blood pressure and declining kidney function for ...

Long-axis view on TEE. PML = posterior mitral leaflet, AML = anterior mitral leaflet (Photo Credit: Hannes Alessandrini) As MitraClip procedures continue to expand as an option for nonsurgical ...

After four years, patients with Abbott's ($ABT) MitraClip cardiac device required additional operations, and the benefits of the device were no better than those of ...

Mary York's heart broke when she heard her husband of 65 years say he didn't want to live anymore. However, physicians were able to repair his heart -- and ultimately hers, too -- when her husband ...

April 5, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana)-Results from the EVEREST IItrial out to two years show that percutaneous repair of the mitral valve with the MitraClip (Abbott) device was significantly less ...

SAN DIEGO — Patients with HF with moderate to severe or severe functional mitral regurgitation who underwent transcatheter mitral valve repair reduced the risk for HF hospitalization and mortality ...

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 ...

A seemingly simple but sophisticated clip may usher in a “new era” for patients suffering from a severe and difficult-to-treat complication of heart failure, according to a new study. The device, ...