Doctors at Turin's Molinette hospital
said Sunday that they had successfully implanted a new
transcatheter mitral valve prosthesis into a patient's beating
heart in an operation performed for the first time in the world.
The patient was a 62-year-old woman with mitral insufficiency
who had multiple risk factors that meant it was too dangerous to
implant the valve with the traditional method involving
extracorporeal circulation.
The prosthetic heart valve, called Epygon, was developed by
French and Italian researchers.
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