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Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery (AP)

14 March, 2010 08:50:51 Yahoo World News
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This undated photo illustration made available by Abbott Laboratories shows the MitraClip mounted on the end of a catheter. The clip, a fabric-covered clothespin, inserted through a blood vessel in the groin, clips the two flaps of the mitral valve together and keeps in the heart's main pumping chamber from backing up into the smaller upper chamber. (AP Photo/Abbott Laboratories) NO SALESAP - Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday.


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