Transcatheter mitral valve chord repair

Transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement.

Preliminary experience using the transcatheter mitral valve leaflet repair procedure.

BACKGROUND Mitral regurgitation (MR) causes increased morbidity and mortality in heart failure patients and is often associated with augmented surgical risk. OBJECTIVES To assess the preliminary results oftranscatheter mitral valve leaflet repair (TMLR) in a single academic center. METHODS Data were collected prospectively in the cardiology department of Rabin Medical Center in 2012. Ten co...

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation

T he rationale for the development of a transcatheter mitral valve implantation (tMVI) procedure, either percutaneous or via minimally invasive surgery (MIS), arose from consideration of several key surgical concepts. First, mitral valve replacement is the most effective modality and the gold standard procedure for reliably reducing mitral regurgitation (MR). The efficacy and risks of mitral va...

Early partial clip detachment following transcatheter mitral valve repair.

A 71-year-old man with a history of dyspnoea in New York Heart Association functional class III, due to heart failure and severe mitral regurgitation, was admitted to hospital for the treatment of valvular heart disease. The patient, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the past, had undergone two coronary artery bypass surgeries (in 1998 and 2014), the latter complicated by periprocedural myocard...

Mitral Valve Anatomic Predictors of Hemodynamic Success With Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair

BACKGROUND Mitral regurgitation is a heterogeneous disease. Determining which patients derive optimal outcomes from transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TMVR) remains challenging. We sought to determine whether baseline mitral valve anatomic characteristics are predictive of left atrial pressure (LAP) changes during TMVR with MitraClip. METHODS AND RESULTS Consecutive patients with...