Surgical Revision After Percutaneous Mitral Repair With the MitraClip Device

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 89; no. 1; pp. 72 - 80
• Main Authors: Argenziano, Michael, Skipper, Eric, Heimansohn, David, Letsou, George V., Woo, Y. Joseph, Kron, Irving, Alexander, John, Cleveland, Joseph, Kong, Bobby, Davidson, Michael, Vassiliades, Thomas, Krieger, Karl, Sako, Ed, Tibi, Pierre, Galloway, Aubrey, Foster, Elyse, Feldman, Ted, Glower, Donald
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 2010
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Equipment Design; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - instrumentation; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mitral Valve Insufficiency - surgery; Prognosis; Prospective Studies; Recurrence; Reoperation - methods; Surgery; Suture Techniques - instrumentation; Time Factors; Treatment Failure; 35; 28
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.08.063

Percutaneous mitral repair with the MitraClip device (Evalve, Menlo Park, CA) has been reported. Preserving conventional surgical options in the event of percutaneous treatment failure is important. We describe surgical treatment at varying intervals after the MitraClip procedure in 32 patients. One hundred seven patients with moderate-to-severe or severe mitral regurgitation who were either symptomatic (91%) or, if asymptomatic (9%), had evidence of left ventricular dysfunction were enrolled as part of the Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge REpair STudy (EVEREST) phase I registry study or as “roll-in” subjects in the EVEREST II study. Thirty-two of the 107 patients (30%) underwent surgery after an attempted MitraClip procedure. Of the 32 patients undergoing post-clip mitral valve surgery, 23 patients (72%) had one or more clips implanted and 9 patients (28%) received no clip implant. The indications for mitral valve surgery in the 23 patients with a clip included partial clip detachment (n = 10), residual or recurrent mitral regurgitation greater than 2+ (n = 9), and other (atrial septal defect [n = 2], device malfunction [n = 1], and incorrectly diagnosed mitral stenosis [n = 1]). Twenty-seven of 31 patients (87%) underwent the surgical procedure planned before surgery (planned procedure unknown in 1 patient). Four of 25 patients (16%) with planned repair underwent mitral valve replacement. Standard surgical options were preserved in patients who had surgery after percutaneous repair with the MitraClip device. Successful repair was feasible in the majority of patients after the MitraClip procedure, with repair performed as late as 18 months after clip implantation.