Lourdes Health Talk

About 5 million people are diagnosed with heart valve disease each year, according to the American Heart Association. The cardiovascular team at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center is successfully performing mitral valve repairs using the innovative MitraClip® procedure—a minimally invasive treatment option for people with a severe leak in the mitral valve. The MitraClip® NT system is the world’s first transcatheter mitral valve repair therapy. It provides a proven treatment option for select patients with significant degenerative MR who are too high-risk for open-heart surgery and do not have other treatment options available to them.In this fascinating segment, Dr. Atiq Rehman discusses The MitraClip® procedure and how Lourdes Medical Center is leading the way in advancements for valve repair.