MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! To celebrate this International STAR WARS Holiday, we are bringing you Episode 2 of our tetralogy spotlighting a new frontier in veterinary medicine. In this episode of "A New Hope For Dogs With Mitral Valve Disease" we speak with one of the galaxy's most renowned veterinary heart surgeons, the Jedi Master, Dr. Chris Orton, to discuss more specifics on TEER| VClamp, the groundbreaking procedure that he and his team at Colorado State University have pioneered over the last 2 years.

In episode 1 we gave an overview of the new medical breakthrough, which Dr. Orton and his team have pioneered at Colorado State University. The new minimallyinvasive procedure is called Transcatheter Edge To Edge Mitral Valve Repair (also known as TEER or the VClamp Procedure), and this new technology has completely revolutionized the way mitral vale disease (MVD) can be treated in dogs.

Now in episode 2, we discuss more specifics of the new procedure and how it works to repair the mitral valve, as well as comparisons between TEER and open heart surgery. This is truly a new frontier of veterinary medicine. Stay tuned for the rest of the TEER trilogy (or tetralogy no pun intended) where we will discuss patient selection, Dr. Orton's journey to becoming a leading authority in veterinary heart surgery, and more.

We hope you enjoy this episode! Please leave your questions and comments below!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
LEARN MORE: TEER Info sheet form Dr. Orton's team at CSU: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wg7gu3aiz9h...
CSU veterinary team performs firstever heart valve procedure on schnauzer (Feb, 2020) https://cvmbs.source.colostate.edu/cs...
Liu B, Leach SB, Pan W, Zheng F, Jia L, Zhou X, Li J. Preliminary Outcome of a Novel EdgetoEdge Closure Device to Manage Mitral Regurgitation in Dogs. Front Vet Sci. 2020 Dec 17;7:597879. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.597879. PMID: 33392290; PMCID: PMC7773927: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Image credit: @corgnelius on instagram

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Teaser
0:47 Intro: Christopher Orton, DVM, PhD, DACVS
1:01 What does the video show? Accessing the heart, transesophageal echocardiography, fluoroscopy.
2:18 Mitral Valve Disease Background, valve prolapse
03:10 how the Vclamp works to repair the leak
03:48 The cost of the procedure
It started with a trip to Shanghai Jan 2020, TEER in humans
04:20 credit to Hongyu Medical in Shanghai, China for making second clamp free
04:46 Insurance
05:14 Contrasting open heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Advantages of TEER: minimally invasive, safety, quick recovery, availability
7:31 Survival data
8:20 Open heart surgery reduces the leak more, but is riskier, longer recovery, but outcomes are similar
9:49 Recovery
Thank you Dr. Orton!

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