want to undergo the open-heart procedure,” especially given the difference in safety, Feldman said. “Part of what makes this attractive is that when the clip doesn’t work, surgery remains an ...

March 15, 2010— -- A tiny clip that holds together "floppy" halves of a leaky heart valve appears to be safer than surgical repair and has comparable efficacy at one year, heart researchers say.

Ten (45.6%) had previously undergone cardiac surgery. ELASTA-Clip plus Tendyne (Abbott) implantation was performed at a median of 25.5 months after M-TEER. The ELASTA-Clip technique was done via a ...

Ron Caputo, foreground, and Ayman Iskander, to his left, look at pictures of a patient's innards on a screen as they maneuver a catheter to insert a clip to ... open heart surgery to repair ...

A month after having the clip implanted, 87 percent of patients’ tricuspid regurgitation had been downgraded to mild or moderate as compared to 4.8 percent in the group getting loop diuretics.

Two surgery patients died, two suffered major strokes, and four needed emergency heart surgery; none of the clip patients had those problems. That made the device much safer than surgery ...

want to undergo the open-heart procedure," especially given the difference in safety, Feldman said. "Part of what makes this attractive is that when the clip doesn't work, surgery remains an ...