Transcatheter pledget-assisted suture tricuspid annuloplasty (PASTA) to create a double-orifice valve
Recommended Citation
Khan JM, Rogers T, Schenke WH, Greenbaum AB, Babaliaros VC, Paone G, Ramasawmy R, Chen MY, Herzka DA, Lederman RJ. Transcatheter pledget-assisted suture tricuspid annuloplasty (PASTA) to create a double-orifice valve. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2018
Publication Title
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Pledget-assisted suture tricuspid valve annuloplasty (PASTA) is a novel technique using marketed equipment to deliver percutaneous trans-annular sutures to create a double-orifice tricuspid valve.
BACKGROUND: Tricuspid regurgitation is a malignant disease with high surgical mortality and no commercially available transcatheter solution in the US.
METHODS: Two iterations of PASTA were tested using trans-apical or trans-jugular access in swine. Catheters directed paired coronary guidewires to septal and lateral targets on the tricuspid annulus under fluoroscopic and echocardiographic guidance. Guidewires were electrified to traverse the annular targets and exchanged for pledgeted sutures. The sutures were drawn together and knotted, apposing septal and lateral targets, creating a double orifice tricuspid valve.
RESULTS: Twenty-two pigs underwent PASTA. Annular and chamber dimensions were reduced (annular area, 10.1 ± 0.8 cm
CONCLUSIONS: PASTA reduces annular dimensions and tricuspid regurgitation in pigs. It may be cautiously applied to selected patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation and no options. This is the first transcatheter procedure, to our knowledge, to deliver standard pledgeted sutures to repair cardiac pathology.
PubMed ID
29405564
Volume
92
Issue
3
First Page
175
Last Page
175
