TEER Improves Quality of Life With Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
NEW ORLEANS — Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) of severely regurgitant tricuspid valves improved outcomes, largely in terms of quality of life, the TRILUMINATE Pivotal trial showed. Compared with medical therapy alone, the percutaneous placement of an investigational TriClip device to hold the leaflets together was favored in a Bayesian analysis with a win ratio of […]
Mitral Valve Repair Devices Go Head-to-Head, and the Top Spot Belongs to…
BOSTON — The Pascal device for edge-to-edge mitral valve repair was as safe and effective as the MitraClip device, the pivotal CLASP IID trial showed. In a pre-specified interim analysis of the first 180 patients enrolled, Pascal was non-inferior for the primary effectiveness endpoint of proportion of patients with mitral regurgitation no worse than 2+ […]