Post by Julio Echarte Morales
Cardiologist. Interventional Cardiology Fellow
➡️The first-in-human experience with a heterotopic cross-caval transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement has just been published in EuroIntervention. Rather than replacing the native tricuspid valve, this novel approach targets one of the key drivers of symptoms in severe TR: systemic venous congestion. Early results are encouraging, showing: ✅ Successful implantation in all treated patients ✅ Clinical and functional improvement in a high-risk population 🔗https://lnkd.in/dhPH78xX Rodrigo Estévez Loureiro, MD, PhD, FESC Manuel Barreiro Pérez Omar Abdul-Jawad Altisent Jozef Bartunek Marc Vanderheyden Mohammad Sherif Sami Alnasser Tobias Daniel Trippel Jörg Hausleiter Neil Fam