Risako Murata, Shingo Kuwata, Masaki Izumo, Noriko Shiokawa, Yukio Sato, Taishi Okuno, Masashi Koga, Kazuaki Okuyama, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Tomoo Harada, Yuki Ishibashi, Yoshihiro Johnny Akashi
The safety and feasibility are still not well known for exercise-induced mitral regurgitation (MR). This study is aimed to assess and compare the hemodynamic and symptomatic changes in patients with significant secondary MR during exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) before and after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). The study included a total of 15 patients with secondary MR who underwent ESE before and after TEER using the MitraClip system (Abbott, Abbott Park, IL, USA). Echocardiographic data of ESE were collected both before the procedure and during the follow-up visit at 3 months...
November 8, 2023: Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics