Transcatheter treatment of aortic regurgitation: Still enigmatic

In the thirty patients with aortic regurgitation in the Jupiter Postmarket Registry, initial device success of JenaValve implantation showed a high success rate of >95% with a device success rate of ∼89%. At one year transvalvar aortic gradients were an acceptable ∼13 mm Hg. Aortic regurgitation in patients in the Jupiter Postmarket Registry continued to be reduced at one-year follow-up with no/trace aortic regurgitation in 50% (though numbers are small). Patients with aortic regurgitation constitute a small number (∼10-15%) of patients with symptomatic aortic valve disease, and follow-up numbers in the Jupiter Postmarket Registry are small (30 patients) with one year echo data in only 23 patients, making broad conclusions about JenaValve results for patients with aortic regurgitation problematic.