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Filter by:The Mistral is an investigational device intended for percutaneous trans-catheter repair in high risk for surgery individuals suffering from functional Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR). The device system is to be used only in accordance with the approved Investigational Plan on subjects who have signed an informed consent form. Device use is limited to the approved study investigators.
The Mistral is an investigational device intended for percutaneous trans-catheter repair in high risk for surgery individuals suffering from functional Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR). The device system is to be used only in accordance with the approved Investigational Plan on subjects who have signed an informed consent form. Device use is limited to the approved study investigators.
The current management of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is either conservative (by medication) or by surgery, usually in concomitant with other valves repair or replacement. TR can worsen or appear late after successful mitral valve surgery which portends a poor prognosis. However, standard surgical approaches requiring cardiopulmonary bypass and especially second surgery have an excessive risks. Thus many patients are denied surgery because of unfavorable risk-benefit balance. Therefore there is a need for novel devices enabling interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons to perform tricuspid annuloplasty by transcatheter methods. Cardioband replicates established surgical techniques (e.g., annuloplasty) using transfemoral approach, without sutures and with adjusted on the beating heart. Similar to the approved indication for mitral annuloplasty. The Cardioband System is expected to allow for treatment of patients that would otherwise not undergo Tricuspid valve repair due to the invasiveness of current techniques.
The purpose of the study is to assess the safety and device performance of the Edwards Tricuspid Transcatheter Repair System in patients with clinically significant, symptomatic, tricuspid regurgitation who are at high surgical risk for standard tricuspid repair/replacement.
The study is a multi-center, prospective, early feasibility study to measure individual patient clinical outcomes and effectiveness, evaluate the safety and function, provide guidance for future clinical study designs and development efforts of the Edwards FORMA Tricuspid Transcatheter Repair System.
The purpose of this study is to gather clinical information on the hemodynamic performance of the Contour 3D® and Tri-Ad® Tricuspid Annuloplasty Rings in a post-market environment.
The mitral valve is the inflow valve into the main pumping chamber of the heart. It can become leaky or narrow, and cause blood to back up into the blood vessels of the lungs. When patients get symptoms from a leaky or narrow mitral valve, surgery is recommended to either fix or replace the valve. Many patients with mitral valve disease also develop a leaky tricuspid valve - the tricuspid valve is the inflow valve to the right side of the heart (the right heart pumps blood across the lungs). The amount of leakiness of the tricuspid valve is determined by an ultrasound test, and the amount of leakiness is graded as: none, mild, moderate, or severe. When a heart surgeon operates on a patient with a diseased mitral valve, he or she will fix the tricuspid valve if the tricuspid leakage is severe. This involves sewing a cloth-covered ring around the valve and narrowing it. If the tricuspid valve leakage is only mild (or absent), the surgeon will leave the tricuspid valve alone at the time of mitral valve surgery. If the tricuspid valve has moderate leakage surgeons are uncertain about what to do. In a recent review of thousands of patients across the nation having mitral valve surgery with moderately leaky tricuspid valves, 35 % of patients had tricuspid valve repair. Since the investigators don't know what the best approach is: to leave the moderately leaky tricuspid valve alone or to fix it with a cloth-covered ring, the investigators propose a study to determine which approach is best. Patients having mitral valve surgery with a moderately leaky tricuspid valve will be randomized to either 1. have a tricuspid valve repair or 2. to not have a tricuspid valve repair. The investigators will carefully follow these patients for two years and see if heart function is better among those who got their valve fixed.
Functional tricuspid regurgitation is common in patients with heart valve disease, replacement and repair both can correct this anomaly. However, there is no data to address which one can bring more benefits to these patients with combined heart valve disease. The investigators retrospectively review patients with two or more heart valve disease and functional tricuspid regurgitation, and assess its long term outcomes.