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Combined MitraClip and Carillon annuloplasty successfully bridges end-stage heart failure to heart transplantation.
Transcatheter mitral valve interventions such as MitraClip and annuloplasty devices may serve as an effective bridge to heart transplantation in patients with end-stage heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation.
A 42-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy and endstage heart failure was evaluated for heart transplantation. He received a MitraClip and Carillon annuloplasty device for functional mitral regurgitation as palliation for his heart failure. Subsequently, he underwent successful heart transplantation.
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Sankar et al. (2017) studied this question. MitraClip and a Carillon annuloplasty device successfully served as a bridge to heart transplantation for a patient with end-stage heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation.
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