Suture Clip for Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
This is a picture of an excised mitral valve from a pig with suture and a clip holding the leaflets together in a novel approach to treating mitral valve regurgitation. It was placed percutaneously using a specially designed catheter. The superelastic Nitinol clip was designed and developed using Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
You can download the patent protecting this remarkable technology that describes in detail the mitral valve repair system capable of applying a suture to the tissue and a fastener to the suture:
