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David Blusztein1, Phillip Moore2, Atif Qasim1
1Department of Cardiology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
JACC. Case Reports
|February 24, 2022
Abstract:
Transcatheter edge-to-edge valve repair can improve clinical outcomes in otherwise high-risk surgical patients. This is a first-in-human procedure outlining transcatheter edge-to-edge valve repair of a systemic tricuspid valve in an extracardiac Fontan patient born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome with prohibitive surgical risk. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

