Mitral valve

Surgical or Percutaneous Management of Mitral Leak

Mitral paravalvular leaks are relatively common after surgical mitral replacement, with an incidence of 7%-17%. Most of...

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Devices Multiply

The Transcatheter mitral valve replacement has been established as gold standard for patients with intermediate or high risk...

Mitral Valve Repair with MitraClip Is Safe in High-Risk Patients

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip has shown good results in symptomatic patients...

TCT 2017 | INTREPID: Mitral Replacement with a Self-Expanding Device

Courtesy of the SBHCI. Intrepid is a 43-, 46-, and 50-mm nitinol self-expanding valve with bovine pericardial leaflets...

TCT 2017 | MAVERIC: Results 6 Months After Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

 Courtesy of the SBHCI. This seems to be the year for transcatheter mitral valve devices, and the ARTO...

MitraClip Procedure Can Be Performed without General Anesthesia

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Avoiding general anesthesia in intervention procedures has the benefits of faster recovery and...

Transcatheter Reduction or Surgery for Paravalvular Leak Repair?

Paravalvular leak is complication derived from incomplete sealing between the implanted prosthesis and the native annulus, which...

SOLACI CACI 2017 | How to do a MitraClip simple and fast

Read articles on the main presentations of the third day of SOLACI-CACI 2017 Congress. See the presentation by Dr. Saibal...