Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Structural Heart and Valve Center, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2021 Jan 1;97(1):E130-E134. doi: 10.1002/ccd.28955. Epub 2020 May 8.
We report the first pledget-assisted suture tricuspid annuloplasty (PASTA) in a patient with torrential tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
Tricuspid valve regurgitation is a common malignant disease with no commercially available transcatheter therapy. PASTA is a "percutaneous surgical" procedure using pledgeted sutures to create a double-orifice tricuspid valve.
An 83-year-old man had end-stage TR caused by a defibrillator lead. He consented to undergo PASTA on a compassionate basis. A double-orifice valve was created with pledgeted sutures from percutaneous right ventricular apical access.
TR was reduced from torrential to trace. The vena contracta reduced to from 23 to 1 mm and annular area reduced from 1817 to 782 mm . However, the annulus dehisced and required closure with a percutaneous nitinol plug. The patient was discharged home and was alive 6 months later but with persistent symptoms.
The anatomy of a double-orifice valve can eliminate TR but a better solution is required to avoid excessive suture tension on annular tissue.
我们报告首例丘比特夹辅助三尖瓣环成形术(PASTA)治疗大量三尖瓣反流(TR)患者。
三尖瓣反流是一种常见的恶性疾病,尚无商业可用的经导管治疗方法。PASTA 是一种“经皮手术”程序,使用丘比特夹缝线创建双孔三尖瓣。
一名 83 岁男性因除颤器导线导致终末期 TR。他同意基于同情接受 PASTA。通过经皮右心室心尖入路的丘比特夹缝线创建双孔瓣膜。
TR 从大量反流减少到微量。收缩期瓣口宽度从 23 毫米减少到 1 毫米,瓣环面积从 1817 毫米减少到 782 毫米。然而,瓣环裂开,需要用经皮镍钛诺塞子闭合。患者出院回家,6 个月后仍存活,但仍有持续症状。
双孔瓣膜的解剖结构可以消除 TR,但需要更好的解决方案来避免环形组织的缝线张力过大。