A certain heart valve surgery on the mitral valve for dogs (no updates about cats yet but dogs do tend to have more heart surgeries than cats) is successfully performed in England and in Japan. Surgeries in the US have not been successful. But a hospital in Florida hopes to soon begin the surgery. I found out about it when my cats' cardio posted that a dog patient of hers, returned from overseas after a successful surgery and was continuing to do very well.
"Friends I would like to thank everyone here for their vocal support of the University of Florida’s plans to bring Dr. Uechi and his team to the USA to perform this life saving open heart surgery, while also teaching our US veterinary surgeons how to perform the mitral valve repair (MVR) surgery, successfully..."
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