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Eintrag vom: 11.05.2013.

MitraClip (mitral clip) is a medical device used to treat mitral valve regurgitation for individuals who should not have open-heart surgery. It is implanted via a tri-axial transcatheter technique and involves suturing together the anterior and posterior mitral valve leaflets.

 

The mitral valve clip which is marketed in the U.S. as the MitraClip is a minimally invasive non-surgical alternative used to repair a damaged mitral heart valve. The mitral valve clip procedure can significantly improve heart function in many people with mitral regurgitation by improving the function of the mitral valve.

 

Read on to learn more about the purpose of mitral valve clips. This article looks at conditions the clips may help treat as well as what happens before during and after mitral valve...

 

Using ECHO and x-ray imaging the doctor locates the area where backflow of blood (regurgitation) is occurring and securely places the clip in that spot. One or more clips may be used when needed to ensure no more back flow will occur.

 

With the MitraClip? procedure the Penn Medicine team is a leader in nonsurgical mitral valve regurgitation treatment using this catheter-based technique.

 

At this point we review our final clip implantation strategy (i.e. clip location and number of clips) as well as clip size and width selection. There are four different MitraClips? currently available. In general we choose the XTR or XTW for big degenerative valves with central pathologies.

 

At this point we review our final clip implantation strategy (i.e. clip location and number of clips) as well as clip size and width selection. There are four different MitraClips? currently available. In general we choose the XTR or XTW for big degenerative valves with central pathologies.

 

MitraClipTM transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TEER) is a minimally invasive treatment to repair your leaking mitral valve using an implanted clip.