Transcatheter pledget-assisted suture tricuspid annuloplasty (PASTA) to create a double-orifice valve.
Jaffar M KhanToby RogersWilliam H SchenkeAdam B GreenbaumVasilis C BabaliarosGaetano PaoneRajiv RamasawmyMarcus Y ChenDaniel A HerzkaRobert J LedermanPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2018)
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.