MitraClip treats people with degenerative mitral regurgitation and is a therapy that is delivered via a catheter to the heart through a blood vessel in the leg. MR patients are often not eligible for the standard-of-care surgery because of advanced age, frailty, multiple comorbidities or other complicating factors and the therapy offers a minimally invasive alternative. Treatment with MitraClip provides almost immediate symptom relief and patients are released from the hospital on average after two days.
Abbott recently began enrollment in the MitraClip EXPAND clinical study, a prospective study evaluating the safety and performance of the new MitraClip system in a contemporary real-world setting. Saibal Kar, M.D., director of Interventional Cardiac Research at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, Calif., treated the first patient enrolled, and is the lead investigator of the study. EXPAND will enroll approximately 1,000 patients in more than 50 centers across the U.S. and Europe and interim results from the study are expected later this year.
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About MitraClip
MitraClip received initial CE Mark approval in Europe in 2008 and was approved by the FDA in 2013. By securing a portion of the leaflets of the mitral valve with an implanted clip, the heart can pump blood more efficiently throughout the body, thereby relieving the symptoms of severe MR and improving patient quality of life.4
For U.S. Important Safety Information on MitraClip, visit http://mitraclippossibilities.com/#isi-sec.
About Abbott
At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world -- in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals -- that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 99,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.
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