Clip-secured implant for heart valve

A method for use at a valve of a heart of a subject, the method comprising:

• transluminally advancing, to the heart, an implant including:
• a primary structural element, a central longitudinal axis of the implant passing through the primary structural element, and
• two clips coupled to the primary structural element, on opposite lateral sides of the primary structural element from each other, each of the clips having a first clip element and a second clip element;
• and
• coupling the implant to leaflets of the valve:
• by, for each of the clips, closing the clip around a central part of a respective leaflet of the valve by causing deflection between the first clip element and the second clip element, thereby sandwiching the central part of the respective leaflet between the first clip element and the second clip element, and
• such that the leaflets form a double orifice configuration, with the primary structural element disposed between the central parts of the leaflets and a proximal-most end of the primary structural element disposed entirely proximal to the entire first clip element and the entire second clip element of each clip.