A 58-year-old male with prior history of mechanical aortic valve replacement (AVR) in 2009 for severe symptomatic aortic regurgitation in a bicuspid aortic valve, and since 2013 a new-onset severe asymptomatic primary mitral regurgitation (MR) due to prolapse of the anterior mitral valve leaflet (AMVL) presented himself with acute heart failure. Based on current guidelines recommendations, this patient was not eligible for transcutaneous mitral valve edge-to-edge repair (TEER), as well he was found as too high risk for conventional mitral valve repair. However, as a last resort TEER was undertaken with an unconventional strategy, which resulted in resolution of the MR and improvement of clinical, biochemical findings.

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