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From: Safety and efficacy outcomes at 1 year after MitraClip therapy for percutaneous mitral valve repair in patients with severe mitral regurgitation: the Egyptian experience

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The MitraClip™ Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Repair System. The MitraClip™ delivery system (Abbott Vascular, Abbott Park, IL) showing a steerable guide catheter, a clip delivery system, and the MitraClip™ device (a). The MitraClip™ device is a polyester-covered cobalt-chromium implant with two arms, while the U shaped grippers are placed in the inner portion of the clip that helps with leaflet fixation (b). The clip delivery system exits through a guide catheter, to grasp the mitral valve leaflet at the site of MR (c). When the clip is closed, the leaflet tissue is secured by the clip arms on ventricular side and by the grippers on the atrial side, creating a double-orifice valve (d)

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