Heart disease: a clip for Liz Taylor

Maybe somebody know very little affect the heart the actress Elizabeth Taylor defeat thanks to a technology very Italian, but concerns in place know that what allows the protagonist of the prominent Adventures of Lassy and hundreds of other films more intriguing tomorrow may serve, as indeed they already do, thousands of less prominent death of Liz, but more or less the same diseases relating the American star.

Merit of this research is Scientific Institute San Raffaele University of Milan and is a variety of hinge used the mitral valve that isolates the atrium from the left ventricle through a very invasive intervention is the introduction of clip applied subcutaneously.

With this relatively easy formula is by what is known clinically mitral reflux, A disease that affects an over sixty-five out of ten. The clip as applied to the patient avoids having more delicate surgery customary certainly more intriguing but which even now that are submitted younger patients and in better health than those with a physical state more unsteady that this intervention known “Mitral Clips typical is offering a great choice to intervention.

Just to extend to many more patients the possible original treatment at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan is emerging a devoted Research Institute, also because of the deliberation that in a year of observation with Metal Clip has seen an enhancement of some 73% of sick So much so that the Research Centre Lombard trace the clinical trial are capable to proffer the new technique to always greater number of patients who require it.