{"id":27274,"date":"2018-10-23T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27274"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:18:56","slug":"tiny-device-may-be-effective-in-treatment-of-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiny-device-may-be-effective-in-treatment-of-heart-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny device may be effective in treatment of heart failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/tiny-device-may-be-effective-in-treatment-of-heart-failure\/article25032794.ece\">Tiny device may be effective in treatment of heart failure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Researchers reported a tiny clip called as <strong>MitraClip<\/strong> which when inserted into the heart sharply reduced death rates in patients with severe heart failure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>About MitraClip<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>MitraClip (mitral clip) is a medical device used to treat mitral valve regurgitation for individuals who should not have open-heart surgery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mitral valve regurgitation<\/strong> is leakage of blood in the Mitral valve of the heart, which causes blood to flow back to the heart instead of circulating to bodily organs, causing heart failures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3.Usage of MitraClip:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In heart failure, the organ is damaged and the heart muscle enlarges and pumps inefficiently to compensate which causes leakage in mitral valve and heart failure worsens.<\/li>\n<li>So MitraClip is used to repair the mitral valve by clipping its two flaps together to transform a poorly functioning valve into an efficient one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>4. Impact of the new device<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will reduce heart related failures by 40%<\/li>\n<li>It will reduce hospitalization of heart patients by half.<\/li>\n<li>It will provide alternative to traditional procedure of operating in heart failures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. If the device is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of severe heart failure, it would be a boon for heart patients as insurers will also cover it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny device may be effective in treatment of heart failure News: Researchers reported a tiny clip called as MitraClip which when inserted into the heart sharply reduced death rates in patients with severe heart failure. Important Facts: About MitraClip MitraClip (mitral clip) is a medical device used to treat mitral valve regurgitation for individuals who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiny-device-may-be-effective-in-treatment-of-heart-failure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiny device may be effective in treatment of heart failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704684305},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}