Gloria Faerber, Paolo Berretta, Tom C Nguyen, Manuel Wilbring, Joseph Lamelas, Pierluigi Stefano, Jörg Kempfert, Mauro Rinaldi, Davide Pacini, Antonios Pitsis, Marc Gerdisch, Nguyen Hoang Dinh, Frank Van Praet, Loris Salvador, Tristan Yan, Nikolaos Bonaros, Antonio Fiore, Torsten Doenst, Marco Di Eusanio
OBJECTIVE: Randomized evidence suggests a high risk of pacemaker implantation for patients undergoing mitral valve (MV) surgery with concomitant tricuspid valve repair (cTVR). We investigated the impact of cTVR on outcomes in the Mini-Mitral International Registry. METHODS: From 2015 to 2021, 7513 patients underwent minimally invasive MV with or without cTVR in 17 international centers (MV: n = 5609, cTVR: n = 1113). Propensity matching generated 1110 well-balanced pairs...
February 2024: JTCVS open