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Percutaneous Therapies for Tricuspid Valve Disease

Built from Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease

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10 sections · 113 slides

  1. 01

    The forgotten valve

    • Prevalence of tricuspid regurgitation
    • Prognosis of significant tricuspid regurgitation
    • Historical surgical experience in isolated tricuspid regurgitation
    • Scope of transcatheter tricuspid therapy

    4 slides

  2. 02

    Anatomic considerations

    • Position and size of the tricuspid valve
    • Components of the tricuspid valve apparatus
    • Structure of the tricuspid annulus
    • Dynamic behaviour of the tricuspid annulus
    • Pattern of annular dilation in secondary TR
    • Tricuspid leaflets
    • Commissures and coaptation reserve
    • Echocardiographic leaflet nomenclature
    • Chordae tendineae
    • Papillary muscles
    • Structures adjacent to the tricuspid valve
    • Venae cavae as access and landing zones

    12 slides

  3. 03

    Mechanism and severity of tricuspid regurgitation

    • Definition and mechanisms of tricuspid regurgitation
    • Mechanisms of tricuspid regurgitation
    • Classification of tricuspid regurgitation
    • Causes of primary tricuspid regurgitation
    • Secondary tricuspid regurgitation
    • Vicious cycle in ventricular secondary TR
    • Device lead related tricuspid regurgitation
    • Classification of tricuspid regurgitation: mechanism
    • Classification of tricuspid regurgitation: underlying reason
    • Framework for grading TR severity
    • Mild tricuspid regurgitation
    • Moderate tricuspid regurgitation
    • Severe tricuspid regurgitation
    • Massive and torrential tricuspid regurgitation
    • Five-grade scheme for tricuspid regurgitation severity

    15 slides

  4. 04

    The right ventricle and imaging assessment

    • Volume overload in chronic tricuspid regurgitation
    • Pressure overload in tricuspid regurgitation
    • Echocardiographic measures of RV function
    • Right ventricular to pulmonary artery coupling
    • Clinical implications of RV dysfunction
    • Role of echocardiography in tricuspid regurgitation
    • Two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiography
    • Cardiac magnetic resonance and computed tomography
    • Intracardiac echocardiography
    • Multimodality imaging pathway

    10 slides

  5. 05

    Indications and the heart team

    • Guideline indications for isolated tricuspid valve surgery
    • Indications for transcatheter tricuspid intervention
    • Multidisciplinary heart team assessment

    3 slides

  6. 06

    Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair

    • Principle of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair
    • Edge-to-edge repair devices
    • TriClip system design
    • PASCAL system design
    • Edge-to-edge repair procedural sequence
    • Step-by-step edge-to-edge repair with the TriClip device
    • Techniques to reduce a large coaptation gap
    • Zipping technique and choice of grasping site
    • TRILUMINATE trial
    • bRIGHT real-world registry
    • Tri.Fr randomised controlled trial
    • PASCAL evidence and the CLASP TR trial

    12 slides

  7. 07

    Transcatheter annuloplasty

    • Rationale for transcatheter annuloplasty
    • Cardioband direct annuloplasty system
    • Cardioband early feasibility outcomes
    • TRI-REPAIR two-year outcomes
    • K-Clip focal annuloplasty

    5 slides

  8. 08

    Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement

    • Valve-in-valve and valve-in-ring replacement
    • Preprocedural planning for valve-in-valve
    • Access strategy for valve-in-valve procedures
    • Transjugular valve-in-ring under echocardiographic guidance
    • Crossing the failed prosthesis
    • Valve selection for valve-in-valve
    • Complications and outcomes of valve-in-valve
    • Orthotopic transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement
    • Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement devices
    • EVOQUE system design
    • EVOQUE implantation: access and wire position
    • EVOQUE implantation: crossing and coaxial alignment
    • EVOQUE implantation: anchor release and valve expansion
    • Step-by-step EVOQUE valve implantation
    • Anchor engagement and staged valve expansion
    • EVOQUE early feasibility study
    • TRISCEND study
    • TRISCEND II randomised trial
    • Other replacement devices in development

    19 slides

  9. 09

    Heterotopic caval valve implantation

    • Principle of caval valve implantation
    • TricValve system and the TRICUS EURO study

    2 slides

  10. 10

    Patient selection and current limitations

    • Favourable anatomy for tricuspid edge-to-edge repair
    • Feasible but less favourable anatomy
    • GLIDE score for procedural success
    • Pulmonary pressure and haemodynamic assessment
    • Anatomical limitations of transcatheter intervention
    • Technical limitations of current devices
    • Limited long-term data
    • Challenges in patient selection
    • Lack of standardised guidelines
    • Conclusions
    • Points to carry forward
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    21 slides