Guided Delivery Systems, Inc. Successfully Treats First Patient with Mitral Reg...(be made when the patient is on a bypass ...),Health

"Our goal at GDS is to develop a fully percutaneous treatment of the mitral valve and left ventricle to correct functional mitral regurgitation that leverages standard imaging and physician skills," said inventor of the GDS Accucinch System and CEO of Guided Delivery Systems, Niel Starksen, M.D. "First human use of the percutaneous delivery of the GDS Accucinch System is an important milestone on the pathway to bringing the millions of patients with functional mitral regurgitation a safe and effective treatment using the skills that interventional cardiologists already have and practice every day."

Dr. Schofer will discuss the GDS Accucinch System and highlights from the case further on September 25, 2009 during the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference being held in San Francisco, CA.

Dr. John Webb, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada is Co-Principal Investigator for the clinical trial and is actively screening patients for the study. The number of clinical sites is expanding to include additional sites in both Germany and Canada, and additional studies are being planned in the United States.

About Mitral Valve Regurgitation

Mitral valve regurgitation or MR is a condition in which the mitral valve, one of the valves in the heart, does not close tightly during the cardiac cycle, allowing the blood to flow backward. Since the blood is not moving as efficiently as it should through the heart and the body, MR can result in fatigue and shortness of breath. As many as one in five people over the age of 55 may have some level of MR(2). It has been estimated that more than one in eight people aged greater than 75 years old have at least moderate heart valve disease(3) a population expected to quadruple in the next 50 years(4). Furthermore, many patients with heart failure
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