I had this procedure done about two years ago and it’s given me a second lease on life. I had no energy, lots of trouble breathing (and sleeping as a result), swelling and water accumulation. Climbing a flight of stairs was like Mt Everest - felt like I wasn’t going to hang around much longer.
I had a couple clips put in my mitral, two days in the hospital and I started feeling better almost immediately. Quite non-invasive
Miraculously, now I’m pretty much back to normal - I even split a half cord of wood last week! I’m extremely grateful to my doctors and modern medicine.
I highly recommend the procedure to anyone with a leaky mitral and regurgitation.
For my mitral valve repair, my surgeon wanted to do open heart. By doing so, he found another problem that would have been missed by doing a minimally invasive procedure. Now, thank God, I’m living a perfectly normal life.
In 1986 when my mom was 78 she was diagnosed and had a pig valve replacement for her defective mitral valve. She was told the valve would be good for about 10 years. When she was 89 she began having troubles and I brought her to live with me. She had congestive heart failure and she was too frail for another open heart surgery. I had cared for her a week after she came home feom a rehabilitation nursing facility ten years earlier. Her scar ran from under her throat to just above her belly button. I cared for until she died after 6 months in 1995.
With this new much less invasive surgery I wonder if that could have been used for either her original valve replacement,or possible repair? Secondly I wonder if she could have been treated at 89 when the pig valve began to fail?