A prominent Ohio cardiologist with ties to Massachusetts is joining the board of Endovalve, a New Jersey-based mitral valve repair firm, MedCity News reported.
Marc Gillinov, head of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Atrial Fibrillation and a co-founder of Wilmington, Mass.-based Viacor, was named to Endovalve’s scientific advisory board.
Both Viacor and Endovalve are working on minimally invasive ways to repair the mitral valve, which controls blood flow between the left ventricle and the left atrium. Some patients’ valves don’t provide a tight seal, leading to a condition called mitral regurgitation, in which blood leaks “backward” into the left ventricle.