Mitral valve surgery following failed MitraClip implantation

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Submitted by

CTSNet Staff

Source

Source Name: Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Source URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocs.12877/full

Author(s)

Piotr Mazur, Salvior Mok, Amar Krishnaswamy, Samir Kapadia, Jose L. Navia

Mitral valve disruption is a rare but serious complication of MitraClip insertion. This review provides an update on surgical interventions following MitraClip failure, and discusses possible valve injuries and surgical approaches.

Comments

Submitted by Aristotle Protopapas on Sat, 2017-01-21 06:52

Interesting how patients assumed to be non-operable did reasonably well after salvage surgery. It follows that some of them should NOT have had the clip in the first place. Congratulations on a good paper