Yuta Kato, Atsushi Okada, Makoto Amaki, Kunihiro Nishimura, Hideaki Kanzaki, Yu Kataoka, Koji Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Hamatani, Masashi Amano, Hiroyuki Takahama, Takuya Hasegawa, Kengo Kusano, Tomoyuki Fujita, Junjiro Kobayashi, Satoshi Yasuda, Chisato Izumi
BACKGROUND: Postprocedural mitral stenosis (MS), or increased transmitral mean pressure gradient (TMPG), is one of the limitations of transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair using MitraClip (Abbott Vascular Inc., Santa Clara, USA); however, the usefulness of three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (3D-TEE) for predicting postprocedural MS in functional mitral regurgitation (MR) has not been fully elucidated. METHODS: Eighty-two consecutive functional MR patients who underwent transcatheter mitral valve repair using MitraClip were retrospectively studied...
January 27, 2022: Journal of Echocardiography