PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Buckley, Rita
ED  - Feldman, Ted
TI  - Controversies in Structural Heart Disease
DP  - 2012  01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 34--35
VI  - 12
IP  - 17
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/17/34.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/17/34.full
AB  - 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.