Overview
Recently, doctor Alexis and his team from AniCura Albea Veterinary Hospital have performed 3 V-Clamp surgeries in succession successfully in one week. After they finished the V-Clamp surgery training last summer, they have already performed V-Clamp operation on 10 dogs successfully (5CN 5ES) till now! The patients’ regurgitation conditions have been greatly improved after surgeries.
Doctor Alexis Santana is a veterinarian with over 16 years of experience in the field of veterinary medicine, especially in the area of cardiorespiratory and endovascular therapy. He co-founded Albea Veterinarios, now AniCura Albea Veterinary Hospital, where he acts as manager and in charge of the cardiology service.
Highlights
He has participated in numerous conferences, workshops as speaker and and published papers on magazines and books on cardiology and endovascular as author. In addition, he is a collaborating professor at the Universidade Lusófona, where he teaches classes in cardiology and endovascular therapy.
AniCura Albea Veterinary is a referral hospital located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. It belongs to AniCura Group (a leading provider of veterinary care in Europe). It offers a wide variety of services and specialties including 24-hour emergencies in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. It has the largest Diagnostic Imaging Service in the Canary Islands. They are pioneers in Endovascular Therapy (minimally invasive vascular and cardiac surgery).
Details
AniCura Albea is the first hospital in Spain and the third in Europe that has been trained and has all the technological and professional requirements to carry out V-Clamp surgery.
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About HongYu Medical
Shanghai Hongyu Medical Technology Co.,LTD, is a high-tech enterprise dedicating to pet cardiology research, innovative medical device R & D and commercialization. lts core product is the self-developed mitral valve interventional repair device V-Clamp. It is currently the only surgical instrument around the world which can be used to treat mitral regurgitation for pet dogs. The company adheres to the concept of innovation and development, with the mission of benefiting the lives of pets.
Discussion
About V-Clamp
The V-Clamp is the veterinary version of the human Mitra-Clip. It is a small device (approximately 8 mm in length) that is implanted to clamp together the two mitral valve leaflets of patients with myxomatous mitral valve disease to reduce blood leaking backwards through the valve. It is this leak in the valve that results in heart failure in veterinary and human patients. V-Clamp is proved to effectively reduce severity of canine mitral valve regurgitation,and the operation is performed through a small apical incision, which greatly improves the safety of the operation.
