Cardiovascular Business August 13, 2024
A team of cardiologists in Germany has completed what may be the first structural heart procedure of its kind, sharing its experience in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, an American College of Cardiology journal.[1]
The case involved a 63-year-old male patient who underwent a heart transplant in 2009. He was hospitalized for recurrent right-sided heart failure, and the care team found that he had echocardiography-confirmed severe tricuspid regurgitation caused by a septal leaflet flail.
“Transcatheter edge-to-edge therapy and orthotopic transcatheter valve replacement were anatomically and technically not feasible,” wrote first author Jennifer von Stein, MD, a cardiac imaging specialist with University Hospital Cologne, and colleagues. “Therefore, we decided to perform a heterotopic caval valve implantation as a last resort in this severely...
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