Is malnutrition associated with increased mortality in patients with symptomatic TR undergoing T-TEER, and does it affect the prognostic benefit of the procedure?
Malnutrition is a common risk factor for increased mortality in patients undergoing T-TEER for symptomatic TR, but it does not negate the mortality benefit of a successful procedure.
In the large, real-world, multicentre EuroTR registry, malnutrition was present in one out of five patients with symptomatic TR undergoing T-TEER and was independently associated with increased mortality. The prognostic benefit of successful T-TEER in reducing mortality was consistently observed in patients with and without malnutrition.
Pagnesi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.