Current Status of Catheter-based Mitral Valve Replacement.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) has been developed to address the need for an alternative therapeutic option to surgery in patients suffering from severe mitral regurgitation who are at high surgical risk. The present review illustrated the state-of-the-art of catheter-based mitral valve replacement evaluating technical characteristics and early clinical experience of different devices to outline prospects and challenges of TMVR.

Recent findings

Several devices are currently under clinical assessment. Early experience has demonstrated high procedural success of TMVR. However, TMVR faces several possible hurdles such as left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) after prosthesis deployment, access site complications, and thrombotic risk

SUBMITTER: Rawish E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8249292 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature