Three senior citizens with end-stage heart failure recently underwent advanced fourth generation mitral valve repair at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai.
A release by the hospital said the fourth generation “MitraClip Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair System“ allowed greater flexibility for doctors to perform complex valve repairs based a patient’s mitral valve anatomy.
Sai Satish, senior interventional cardiologist at the hospital, who performed the procedure, said all the three patients had sustained extensive damage to their hearts and two of them had previously undergone aortic valve procedures that altered their mitral anatomies. “The intractable heart failure coupled with these extreme anatomical challenges would have made it impossible to treat them with any conventional device available today. The ability [of the advanced system] to independently grasp each valve leaflet allows us to now get surgical-like repair results,” he said.
