MitraClip was designed to spare patients from open-heart surgery by snaking hardware into the heart through a major vein. Its manufacturer, Abbott, said it offered new hope for people severely ill ...

Abbott Laboratories has announced that its implantable heart device, MitraClip, has not been recommended for approval by reviewers at the US Food and Drug Administration. Clinical trials ...

MitraClip® (Abbott Vascular, CA, USA), a new device for transcatheter mitral valve repair, which gained CE mark approval for use in Europe in 2008, is now approved in the USA for use in patients ...

In severe cases, surgery can repair or replace the valve. If patients are not candidates for surgery, doctors can implant a clothespin-like device called a MitraClip that helps the valve close ...

The Abbott MitraClip device itself is a minute clip passed through a catheter, which aids the mitral valve in sealing properly, subsequently restoring normal blood flow through the heart.

The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) has performed the first successful MitraClip implants on three state-funded patients in Gauteng. The minimally invasive procedure is ...

The MitraClip is a single-size clip device that has been used to treat patients with functional, mixed and degenerative MR. The Clip has a dual arm structure, with grippers above the arms to ...