CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A cardiac robotic surgery team at UVA Health University Medical Center was the first in the world to perform a mitral valve repair using the Memo 4D Curve, a newly approved device used to treat mitral regurgitation, one of the most common heart diseases, according to UVA Health and device maker Corcym.
The team led by Michael Ibrahim, MD, PhD, director of UVA Health’s Robotic Surgery Program is the only one of its kind in the Commonwealth and performed the procedure last month.
“We feel very privileged that we were trusted to be the first center in the world to put in this new technology,” Ibrahim said during a media call…