Philipp von Stein, Christian Besler, Matthias Riebisch, Osamah Al-Hammadi, Tobias Ruf, Muhammed Gerçek, Christina Grothusen, Michael Mehr, Marc Ulrich Becher, Kai Friedrichs, Can Öztürk, Stephan Baldus, Henning Guthoff, Tienush Rassaf, Holger Thiele, Georg Nickenig, Jörg Hausleiter, Helge Möllmann, Patrick Horn, Malte Kelm, Volker Rudolph, Ralph-Stephan von Bardeleben, Holger M Nef, Peter Luedike, Philipp Lurz, Roman Pfister, Victor Mauri
BACKGROUND: We previously reported procedural and 30-day outcomes of a German early multicenter experience with the PASCAL system for severe mitral regurgitation (MR). This study reports 1-year outcomes of mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair with the PASCAL system according to MR etiology in a large all-comer cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS: Clinical and echocardiographic outcomes up to 1-year were investigated according to MR etiology (degenerative [DMR], functional [FMR], or mixed [MMR]) in the first 282 patients with symptomatic MR 3+/4+ treated with the PASCAL implant at 9 centers in 2019...
December 12, 2023: Journal of the American Heart Association