Canadian Cardiologist Performs Successful World First, Using Canadian Invented Device in Novel Way (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Canadian Cardiologist Performs Successful World First, Using Canadian Invented Device in Novel Way

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A Canadian cardiologist has published a report describing how he used a Canadian-invented device for the first time in the world to successfully insert a MitraClip® through a patient's jugular vein rather than the femoral vein. Dr.Neil Fam is an interventional cardiologist and director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

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