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Combined MitraClip implantation and left atrial appendage occlusion - “because it's there” revisited
Implantação simultânea de MitraClip e encerramento do apêndice auricular esquerdo – “because it's there” revisitado?
Duarte Nuno Cacela
Hospital de Santa Marta, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal
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with excellent results&#44; both procedural and in a mean follow-up of 243&#177;70&#46;7 days&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The rationale for combining the two procedures is attractive&#44; since both require transseptal access&#46; MitraClip implantation is one of the few interventional cardiology procedures that do not require administration of contrast&#44; reducing the likelihood of contrast overload&#44; an important factor in patients with multiple comorbidities that often include renal dysfunction&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Combining the two procedures also has the advantages of reducing costs&#44; the time that patients must suspend or change their anticoagulant therapy&#44; vascular complications &#40;since only a single vascular access is required&#41;&#44; and total fluoroscopy time&#44; as well as avoiding the additive effect of two residual interatrial septal communications&#46; The main disadvantage is longer procedure time&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">If&#44; as the authors show&#44; the reference transseptal puncture for the MitraClip &#8211; which differs from the ideal puncture site for left atrial appendage &#40;LAA&#41; closure &#8211; does not hinder implantation of the Watchman device&#44; the combination appears to make even more sense&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Given all this&#44; what is the weakest point in this combined procedure&#63; In my opinion it is the indication for LAA closure&#44; which&#44; as the authors point out&#44; is only a class IIb indication in the European Society of Cardiology guidelines&#46; The procedure is the subject of ongoing controversy&#44; the most famous example of which was John Mandrola&#39;s article &#8220;Left atrial appendage closure should stop now&#8221;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> in November 2016&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this regard the approach of Francisco et al&#46; was flawless&#44; restricting LAA closure to patients with firm indications for the procedure&#58; comorbidities directly affecting bleeding risk associated with anticoagulant therapy &#40;liver cirrhosis&#44; previous stroke under oral anticoagulation&#44; chronic anemia with intestinal angiodysplasia&#44; documented labile INR&#44; and chronic use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs due to degenerative osteoarticular disease&#41;&#46; The patients selected for this approach were clearly those with a worse risk profile&#58; three were ineligible for the EVEREST II trial<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> due to ejection fraction &#40;EF&#41; &#60;25&#37; &#40;in EVEREST II the mean EF was 60&#37;&#44; compared to 26&#37; in the series under discussion&#41; and&#44; more directly relevant to LAA closure&#44; a mean CHA<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>DS<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>-VASc score of 4&#46;5&#177;0&#46;6 and mean HAS-BLED score of 3&#46;5&#177;0&#46;6&#46; In the largest series published to date on the Watchman device&#44; a meta-analysis<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> of 2406 patients from the PROTECT AF and PREVAIL trials and their respective registries&#44; the CHA<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>DS<span class="elsevierStyleInf">2</span>-VASc score ranged between 3&#46;5&#177;1&#46;6 and 4&#46;3&#177;1&#46;3&#44; while the proportion of patients with a HAS-BLED score &#8805;3 varied between 19&#46;9 and 36&#46;2&#37;&#46; In the series by Francisco et al&#46;&#44; all had a HAS-BLED score &#8805;3&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the only published study comparing the combined procedure with standalone MitraClip implantation&#44; Kuwata et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> drew similar conclusions to the Portuguese authors in terms of safety&#44; feasibility and short-term efficacy&#46; In the series by Kuwata et al&#46;&#44; in a population with mean EF of 54&#37; and using Amplatzer and Amulet devices&#44; procedure time &#40;90 min vs&#46; 66 min&#41; and fluoroscopy time &#40;32 min vs&#46; 18 min&#41; were the only parameters that differed significantly&#46; The short follow-up in both series is perhaps their greatest limitation&#44; since it leaves open the question of medium- and long-term clinical benefit&#44; including survival&#44; particularly regarding LAA closure&#44; which is the more controversial intervention&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In view of the above&#44; considering the low probability of a randomized trial being conducted between the standalone and combined approaches&#44; I believe that the study by Francisco et al&#46;&#44; with its scrupulous selection of patients for this combined procedure&#44; provides good evidence that associating MitraClip implantation and LAA closure with the Watchman device is feasible&#44; safe and&#44; at least in the short term&#44; effective&#46; In the cases they present&#44; it was not simply &#8220;Because it&#39;s there&#8221;&#44; but rather &#8220;and last but not least&#44; because it&#39;s there&#8221;&#44; and for this they are to be congratulated&#46;</p><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0005">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The author has no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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