Press Announcements > FDA approves new indication for valve repair device to treat certain heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation

Press Announcements > FDA approves new indication for valve repair device to treat certain heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation





FDA approves new indication for valve repair device to treat certain heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new indication for a heart valve repair device that is intended to reduce moderate-to-severe or severe mitral regurgitation, a leakage of blood backward through the mitral valve into the heart’s left atrium that can cause heart failure symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue and swelling in the legs. When first approved in 2013, the MitraClip Clip Delivery System (MitraClip) was indicated to reduce mitral regurgitation in certain patients whose significant mitral regurgitation and heart failure symptoms result from abnormalities of...