DESCRIPTION:
Mitral regurgitation (MR) affects millions of patients world-wide. It is a progressive disease which worsens when left untreated. MR leads to compensatory remodeling of the left ventricle resulting in reduced functional capacity, poor quality of life, repeat hospitalizations, and eventually death from heart failure. 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 exciting new title, international key opinion leaders discuss in-depth the clinical application of percutaneous mitral valve therapies for this sub-sect of patients, focusing on the MitraClip device. These new 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.
CONTENTS:
1. Anatomy of the Mitral Valvular Complex
2. The Pathophysiology of Mitral Regurgitation
3. Genesis of the surgical edge-to-edge (E2E) 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. EVEREST Trial Results
9. Outcomes for Functional Mitral Regurgitation (FMR)
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 & tricks
15. Training and simulation
16. Special techniques for FMR
17. The European experience since CE approval
18. An Interventionalist""s Approach to the Practical Use of TEE Guidance
19. Echo guidance
20. A Critical Appraisal of Edge-To-Edge Repair with the MitraClip
21. Technique for surgical removal of the MitraClip
22. Special considerations for MV repair after prior clip therapy
23. Gross and histologic findings after MitraClip placement
24. Future directions in percutaneous mitral therapy
