In 2013, the FDA approved an implantable device to treat leaky heart valves. Among its inventors was Mehmet Oz, the former ...

In 2016, medical device giant Abbott issued a recall for its MitraClip cardiac device — "a Class I recall, the most serious type," the FDA said. "Use of this device may cause serious injuries or ...

The MitraClip is a single-size clip device that has been used to treat patients with functional, mixed and degenerative MR. The Clip has a dual arm structure, with grippers above the arms to ...

The replacement system is launching into markets already served by repair devices, namely Edwards’ Pascal and Abbott’s ...

The heart surgeon and once-TV personality used his experience marketing MitraClip, a heart device to treat mitral valve regurgitation, as an example. Oz helped invent and holds a patent on ...

MitraClip® (Abbott Vascular, CA, USA), a new device for transcatheter mitral valve repair, which gained CE mark approval for use in Europe in 2008, is now approved in the USA for use in patients ...