{"id":19501,"date":"2015-05-12T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=19501"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:28:24","slug":"mitraclip-dr-gorav-ailawadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2015\/05\/12\/mitraclip-dr-gorav-ailawadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Me Anything #2: &#8220;Is the MitraClip Close to Being a Standardized Procedure?&#8221; asks Dorothy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our second\u00a0&#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221; video from the Mitral Conclave conference, we&#8217;re going to answer Dorothy\u2019s question about the MitraClip, a new transcatheter mitral valve repair device (TMVR) that received FDA approval in 2013. In her post, Dorothy asked me, \u201cIs the MitraClip getting closer to being a standardized procedure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/mitraclip-blog.jpg\" alt=\"MitraClip by Abbott Laboratories\" width=\"466\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To answer Dorothy\u2019s question, I tracked down Dr. Gorav Ailawadi. As you might recall, I was very fortunate to watch Dr. Ailawadi and Dr. Scott Lim perform a MitraClip procedure a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKuF6wu1s-4\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dorothy for her question <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> a special thanks to Dr. Ailawadi for sharing his clinical experiences and research with the patients and caregivers in our community!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p>P.S. For the hearing impaired members of our community, I have provided a written transcript of my interview with Dr. Ailawadi below.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Hi, everybody! It&#8217;s Adam and we&#8217;re at the Mitral Conclave in New York City. We&#8217;re answering your questions that were submitted at heartvalvesurgery.com. I am very excited to be here with Dr. Gorav Ailawadi, who&#8217;s from the Michigan Medicine. He&#8217;s a Cardiac Surgeon. We&#8217;re answering Dorothy&#8217;s question about the MitraClip. She asks, Dr. Ailawadi, \u201cIs the MitraClip getting closer to be a standardized procedure?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gorav Ailawadi: Well that&#8217;s a great question. The MitraClip, as many of you may know, is a device that goes in through the groin to repair the mitral valve that&#8217;s leaking. The way it works is it essentially clips two different parts of the valve together. It&#8217;s one of about ten or twelve different ways that we have to repair valves with surgery, so I probably can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s the standard procedure that we do on every patient. It is a great procedure in the right patient.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, it is something that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2013\/11\/19\/mitraclip-fda-approval\/\">recently FDA approved in the United States<\/a> about a year ago, for patients with a certain type of valve disease called degenerative valve disease who are not candidates for surgery. We see in many patients a huge reduction in the value leakage. It may not always be as good as with surgery, so when somebody that&#8217;s healthy and active, surgery may still be a better option in terms of long term.<\/p>\n<p>Those patients that are maybe frail or elderly, or have other medical problems, the clip is a great solution. It decreases their leak to something that they can absolutely live with. They function well. They can live life. Most of them are actually out of the hospital within a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Dr. Ailawadi, I want to thank you for all the great work that you and your team are doing at Michigan Medicine. Thanks for coming by and sharing that answer. I hope that helped Dorothy; I know it helped me. Thanks so much.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gorav Ailawadi: Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitral-valve-repair"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41720,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501\/revisions\/41720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}