Summary

The fastest growing area of interventional cardiology is structural interventions, especially for aortic valve stenosis (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) and mitral regurgitation (mitral clipping) [Meier P, Timmis A. Heart 2012]. In total, the number of valve procedures has increased over 30% from a total of 149,407 in 2006 to 194,254 in 2010 [Stuge O, Liddicoat J. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006]. This article discusses the present status and future direction of interventional mitral valve therapies.