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Percutaneous Heart Valve Technology: The Mitral Challenge

While there is no question that heart valve repair and replacement is moving toward minimally invasive techniques and devices, there is a big difference between a minimally invasive surgical approach and a truly percutaneous, incisionless procedure. The challenges of reaching the latter goal are substantial, but apparently not insurmountable., In fact, recent progress in this field provides hope that in the not too distant future, percutaneous valve replacement and repair will become an accepted part of the treatment armamentarium, greatly expanding the number of patients who can be offered these potentially life-saving procedures.

by Mary Thompson

Most surgeries to replace or repair malfunctioning heart valves are still performed in the traditional, highly invasive way—by opening the chest and stopping the heart. As a result, many patients who might benefit from these procedures do not get them because they are deemed too unstable or high risk to undergo the operation. Recently, however, this field has witnessed an explosion of technology designed to achieve valve repair or replacement without the need for open heart surgery, using minimally invasive surgical or even percutaneous technologies

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