Abstract
Transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip (Abbott) is largely an elective procedure. The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed challenges to health care systems; in many cases elective interventions have been curtailed. Patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and cardiogenic shock are high-risk surgical candidates and at risk of a poor outcome without intervention. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) recently proposed joint guidance on triage of structural heart disease (SHD) interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We present two illustrative cases of severe MR and cardiogenic shock that were successfully treated with MitraClip amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with good outcomes at short term follow-up.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 950-953 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2020 |
Keywords
- COVID-19
- Cardiogenic shock
- MitraClip
- Mitral regurgitation
- Severity of Illness Index
- Echocardiography
- Pandemics
- Comorbidity
- Heart Valve Prosthesis
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Mitral Valve/diagnostic imaging
- Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology
- Male
- Shock, Cardiogenic/etiology
- Cardiac Catheterization/methods
- Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation/methods
- Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology
- Mitral Valve Insufficiency/diagnosis
- Betacoronavirus
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine