Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair toward a surgical standard: first-in-man report of direct annuloplasty with a cardioband device to treat severe functional tricuspid regurgitation.

CardioBand™ (ValtechCardio, OrYehuda, Israel) is a transcatheter annuloplasty system designed to implant a Dacron surgical-like adjustable band with a sutureless technique under echocardiographic and fluoroscopic guidance. We describe the first-in-human clinical experience of treatment severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) with this device. The ‘first-in-human’ patient was a 74-year-old woman with severe functional TR associated with …