To make sure this medicine is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have: 1  heart disease, high blood pressure; 2  epilepsy or other seizure disorder; 3  liver disease; 4  narrow-angle glaucoma; 5  diabetes (or ketoacidosis); 6  thyroid disorder; or. 7  bladder obstruction or other urination problems.
Patients with significant additional health problems are, however, often too high risk for open-heart surgery. Minimally Invasive, Nonsurgical Mitral Valve Repair. The MitraClip system is a minimally invasive approach to nonsurgically repair the mitral valve and treat mitral regurgitation. It consists of a delivery catheter (thin plastic tube) with a small clip at the end that is inserted through a small skin incision into a leg vein in the groin.
Mitral valve regurgitation means that one of the valves in your heart-the mitral valve-is letting blood leak backward into the heart. Heart valves work like one-way gates, helping blood flow in one direction between heart chambers or in and out of the heart. The mitral valve is on the left side of your heart.