Early Discharge After Mitral and Tricuspid Edge-to-edge Repair: an Assessment of Feasibility and Safety

Mitral regurgitation (MR) and tricuspid regurgitation (TR) are common causes of breathlessness, fluid retention and other heart failure symptoms, which lead to reduced quality of life and frequent hospitalisation. These conditions are particularly prevalent in older adults with many of these patients being at high risk for surgical intervention due to frailty and comorbidities, leaving them with few treatment alternatives.

Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) procedures have increasingly been used to improve the severity of both MR and TR, offering patients symptomatic relief and reductions in heart failure hospitalisation at low procedural risk. There is considerable geographic variation in protocols to assess these patients prior to the procedure and also in length of hospital stay. The standard of care in the UK, and particularly in Oxford, emphasises fewer investigations before the TEER procedure and shorter length of hospital stay.

This prospective, observational cohort study will examine the safety and feasibility of this practice.