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TCT 2018: Abbott Expects COAPT Results To Support Expanding MitraClip's Indication

 
• By Reed Miller

Data presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference Sept. 23 in San Diego will support expanding the label of Abbott's MitraClip mitral valve repair device to include secondary, or functional, mitral regurgitation, a company executive tells Medtech Insight. In the COAPT trial, MitraClip reduced the two-year rate of heart-failure hospitalization and all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure and moderate-to-severe or severe secondary mitral regurgitation.

San Diego convention center as seen from the Embarcadero South.
The 2018 TCT Conference was held in San Diego, Sept. 21-25. • Source: shutterstock.com

Results of the COAPT trial show transcatheter mitral-valve repair with Abbott Vascular's MitraClip system reduces the two-year heart-failure hospitalization and all-cause mortality rate in heart failure patients with moderate-to-severe secondary mitral regurgitation who remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy.

"This is a landmark trial. The studies that have been done on secondary mitral regurgitation [previously] are very limited and these patients generally do not undergo surgery. So this is...

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