Prospective, multi-center, randomized study of the safety and effectiveness of an endovascular approach to the treatment of mitral valve regurgitation using the Evalve Cardiovascular Valve Repair System (MitraClip® implant).
A minimum of 279 evaluable patients randomized 2:1 to MitraClip or mitral valve surgery, respectively, are required to test the primary safety and effectiveness endpoints of the RCT. Enrollment in the RCT is now complete. 60 roll-in patients were enrolled under EVEREST II RCT.
38 clinical sites throughout the US and Canada have participated in the RCT and HRR. 37 US sites are participating in REALISM.
The RCT is powered to test the hypothesis MitraClip has both superiority of safety and non-inferiority of effectiveness compared to mitral valve repair or replacement surgery. The HRR is powered to show lower mortality at 30 days with the MitraClip than predicted surgical mortality.
