Replacement Systems Reach Commercial Availability At Last
Transcatheter mitral replacement has been imminent for well over a decade while anchoring in a soft moving annulus and avoiding outflow obstruction defeated successive designs. Systems now reaching commercial availability serve patients whom edge-to-edge repair suits poorly, particularly those with excess leaflet tissue or severe annular dilatation. Growth at 15.6% comes from a genuinely small base. What remains unproven is durability against surgical repair, which matters enormously in patients whose alternative would have been an operation lasting decades. Durability against surgical repair is the unanswered question. Fifteen years of failed designs preceded these systems reaching approval.
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