Mitral valve prosthesis implanted into beating heart

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 19 - 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. (ANSA).