Mitral Valve Awareness: Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair & Replacement with Dr. Howard Herrmann

To learn about the latest advances in transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) and transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), we interviewed Dr. Howard Herrmann, Director for Interventional Cardiology at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Key questions answered by Dr. Herrmann in this video include:

1. What is an interventional cardiologist?

2. How has the use of catheters to treat patients with heart valve disease evolved during the past 20 years?

3. What are the patient benefits of transcatheter mitral valve therapy?

4. When did the first transcatheter mitral valve device receive FDA approval? What was the device? How does the MitraClip work? What are the outcomes?

5. What are the two types of mitral regurgitation? Why was the COAPT Clinical Trial so important for mitral valve patients with secondary regurgitation?

6. What is the latest updated about transcatheter mitral valve replacement devices?

7. What is your advice for patients specific to TMVr (repair) and TMVR (replacement)?