MitraClip was designed to spare patients from open-heart surgery by snaking hardware into the heart through a major vein. Its manufacturer, Abbott, said it offered new hope for people severely ill ...

Abbott Laboratories has announced that its implantable heart device, MitraClip, has not been recommended for approval by reviewers at the US Food and Drug Administration. Clinical trials ...

In severe cases, surgery can repair or replace the valve. If patients are not candidates for surgery, doctors can implant a clothespin-like device called a MitraClip that helps the valve close ...

The MitraClip is a single-size clip device that has been used to treat patients with functional, mixed and degenerative MR. The Clip has a dual arm structure, with grippers above the arms to ...