Impact of combined baseline and postprocedural troponin values on clinical outcome following the MitraClip procedure.

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of periprocedural troponin levels on clinical outcome following the MitraClip procedure.

BACKGROUND

Cardiac troponin is known to be a predictive biomarker for various clinical outcomes; however, data about its predictive value in patients undergoing transcatheter mitral valve repair are limited.

METHODS

Consecutive patients undergoing the MitraClip procedure were enrolled. Serum cardiac troponin I concentrations were measured before and after the procedure, and the maximal value recorded within 72 hr after the procedure was used for the postprocedural values. The clinical outcome was all-cause mortality within a 1-year follow-up.

RESULTS

Out of 354 patients, 29 patients (8.2%) were deceased within 1 year. Patients who died had significantly higher baseline (0.05 [0.01-0.08] vs. 0.01 [0.01-0.03] ng/ml; p < .001) and postprocedural troponin I values (0.51 [0.30-1.42] vs. 0.20 [0.33-0.55] ng/ml; p = .005). A Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that patients with higher baseline troponin I values had a significantly worse prognosis than those with lower values (log-rank p < .001), and similarly, 1-year mortality was significantly higher in patients with higher postprocedural troponin I than those with lower levels (log-rank p = .021). Moreover, the highest mortality rate was observed in patients with both elevated baseline and postprocedural troponin I values (log-rank p = .001), which was found to be an independent predictor of mortality by multivariable analyses.

CONCLUSIONS

The present study suggests that combined baseline and postprocedural troponin measurements are useful for risk stratification of 1-year mortality following the MitraClip procedure.