Percutaneous Mitral Leaflet Repair

Mitral regurgitation (MR) affects millions of patients worldwide. Open, arrested heart surgery has until now been the therapeutic treatment of choice. However, many high-risk patients cannot tolerate traditional heart surgery and continue to suffer from severe MR. In this book, international experts discuss the clinical application of percutaneous mitral valve therapies for this subset of patients, focusing on the MitraClip device. These therapeutic developments will come to form an essential component of the interventional cardiologists’ armamentarium in treating MR patients and will be of interest to every practicing cardiologist.