Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure

Clinical impact of elevated tricuspid valve inflow gradients after transcatheter edge-to-edge tricuspid valve repair

EuroIntervention 2019;15:e1057-e1064. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00237

Martin Orban
Martin Orban1,2, MD; Mathias W. Orban1,2, MD; Daniel Braun1,2, MD; Simon Deseive1,2, MD; Danny Kupka1,2, MD; Thomas J. Stocker1,2, MD; Erik Bagaev2,3, MD; Nicole Karam4,3, MD, PhD; Christian Hagl2,3, MD; Steffen Massberg1,2, MD, PhD; Michael Nabauer1,2, MD; Jörg Hausleiter1,2, MD
1. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; 2. Munich Heart Alliance, Partner Site German Center for Cardiovascular Disease (DZHK), Munich, Germany; 3. Herzchirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; 4. European Hospital Georges Pompidou (Cardiology Department) and Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (INSERMU970), Paris, France

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare the outcome of patients with a post-procedural tricuspid valve gradient (TVG) of >3 mmHg vs ≤3 mmHg after transcatheter edge-to-edge tricuspid valve repair (TTVR).

Methods and results: Between March 2016 and October 2018 we treated 145 patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) with TTVR by placing 2.2±0.7 clips per patient. Device success (TR reduction ≥1° to at least moderate) was achieved in 125 patients (86.2%). TTVR resulted in an elevated TVG >3 mmHg in 25 (17.2%) patients. Device success (84% vs 86.7%, p=0.9), number of clips implanted (2.3±0.7 vs 2.2±0.7, p=0.33), clinical improvement including NYHA class (III/IV 24% vs 28%, p=0.92) and increase in six-minute walking test at one month (67 m [IQR 5-103 m] vs 56 m [IQR 8-97 m], p=0.93), mortality (HR 1.07, 95% CI: 0.43-2.65, plogrank=0.88) and the combined endpoint mortality and hospitalisation for heart failure at one year (HR 1.07, 95% CI: 0.46-2.48, plogrank=0.88) were similar between patients with a TVG >3 mmHg versus patients with a TVG ≤3 mmHg.

Conclusions: A small cohort of patients demonstrated an elevated TVG higher than 3 mmHg at discharge. This elevation had no impact on clinical improvement, mortality or hospitalisation for heart failure.

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