[5]. A large proportion of patients with significant MR pres-ent with severe heart failure and LV
2 dysfunction not ame-nable to surgical treatment. In recent years a percutaneous technique based on the Alfieri edge-to-edge surgical method [6,7], involving approximation of the mitral leaflets using a suture, was developed [8]. The MitraClip®device (Abbot Vascular, Menlo Park, CA,