RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Buckley, Rita
T1 Controversies in Structural Heart Disease
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2012
FD SAGE Publications
VO 12
IS 17
SP 34
OP 35
DO 10.1177/155989771217018
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/17/34.abstract
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.