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Fabian Voß1, Philipp Mourikis1, Fabian Nienhaus1
1Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Background:
Residual or recurrent tricuspid regurgitation (TR) after prior transcatheter tricuspid edge-to-edge (T-TEER) repair occurs in about 12% of patients within 1 year. Since surgical tricuspid valve repair or replacement is of high risk, treatment options remain scarce. Data regarding the feasibility, safety, and treatment strategies using transcatheter valve replacement (TTVR) after T-TEER are sparse.
Aims:
Here, we aimed to summarize our early experience in TTVR after failed T-TEER, analyze its feasibility and summarize the results in a distinct algorithm.
Methods:
Patients undergoing TTVR (n = 21) at the University Hospital of Duesseldorf were prospectively analyzed and stratified according prior T-TEER procedures with implanted devices. Groups were compared in terms of procedural success, periprocedural complications, and patient outcomes. Individual treatment decisions for patients after T-TEER were analyzed.
Results:
Five patients had residual/recurrent severe to torrential TR and underwent TTVR after T-TEER, whereas 16 patients were primarily referred for TTVR. Preprocedural wire-based intentional clip excision (WICE) was performed in 60% of these patients. Patients did not differ regarding procedural success (100% in both groups, p = 0.99) and periprocedural complications (0 [TTVR after TEER] vs. 5.6% [primary TTVR], p = 0.99 for the combined endpoint of in-hospital death, stroke, myocardial infarction, re-intervention or surgery, and major bleeding). A pacemaker was required in one patient of each group, p = 0.4). Procedural times were higher among patients with prior T-TEER. Treatment decisions for patients after T-TEER were integrated into a treatment algorithm.
Conclusion:
The valve after clip concept is feasible and the proposed algorithm may support procedural planning.
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