James S Gammie, Krzysztof Bartus, Andrzej Gackowski, Piotr Szymanski, Agata Bilewska, Mariusz Kusmierczyk, Boguslaw Kapelak, Jolanta Rzucidlo-Resil, Alison Duncan, Rashmi Yadav, Steve Livesey, Paul Diprose, Gino Gerosa, Augusto D'Onofrio, Demetrio Pittarello, Paolo Denti, Giovanni La Canna, Michele De Bonis, Ottavio Alfieri, Judy Hung, Piotr Kolsut, Michael N D'Ambra
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and performance of a novel, beating heart procedure that enables echocardiographic-guided beating heart implantation of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) artificial cords on the posterior mitral leaflet of patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation. METHODS: Two prospective multicentre studies enrolled 13 (first-in-human) and 52 subjects, respectively. Patients were treated with the HARPOON beating heart mitral valve repair system...
January 4, 2021: European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery