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Percutaneous Mitral Leaflet Repair: MitraClip Therapy for Mitral Regurgitation book cover

1st Edition

Percutaneous Mitral Leaflet Repair MitraClip Therapy for Mitral Regurgitation

Edited By Ted Feldman, Frederick St Goar Copyright 2012
194 Pages
by CRC Press

194 Pages
by CRC Press

194 Pages
by CRC Press
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Mitral regurgitation (MR) affects millions of patients worldwide. It is a progressive condition that can worsen when left untreated, possibly leading to compensatory remodeling of the left ventricle. This can result in reduced functional capacity, poor quality of life, repeat hospitalizations, and even death from heart failure. Open, arrested heart surgery has until now been... Read more

Preface 1. Anatomy of the mitral valvular complex 2. The pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation 3. Genesis of the surgical edge-to-edge repair 4. Outcomes from surgical edge-to-edge repair 5. An overview of the literature on surgical mitral valve repair 6. Development of percutaneous edge-to-edge repair: The MitraClip® Story 7. MitraClip® system design and history of development 8. The EVEREST trial results 9. Outcomes for functional mitral regurgitation 10. The role of percutaneous mitral repair for high risk patients 11. Echocardiographic evaluation for mitral regurgitation grading and patient selection 12. Understanding the limits of patient selection for edge-to-edge repair 13. The basic technique for the Evalve MitraClip® procedure 14. Procedural tips and tricks 15. Training and simulation 16. Special techniques for functional mitral regurgitation 17. The European experience since CE approval 18. An interventionalist’s approach to the practical use of TEE guidance 19. Echocardiographic guidance of MitraClip® mitral valve repair 20. A critical appraisal of edge-to-edge repair with the MitraClip® 21. Technique for surgical removal of the MitraClip® 22. Special considerations for mitral valve repair after clip therapy 23. Gross and histologic findings after MitraClip® placement 24. Future directions in percutaneous mitral therapy

Biography

Ted Feldman , MD, FESC FACC FSCAI is director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at NorthShore University Health System and Evanston Hospital, IL, USA. He has been a contributor to the development of percutaneous valve therapies, beginning with balloon valvuloplasty in the 1980s, and now with new methods for catheter-based valve repair and replacement. Frederick St Goar, MD, FACC is an interventional cardiologist with Advanced Cardiovascular Specialists and a director of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation at El Camino Hospital, Mt View, CA, USA. He was the physician founder of Evalve.

" … offers a unique, comprehensive overview of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair … ."
—Volkmar Falk, MD, in CardioPulse

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