Trifecta™ Long Term Follow-Up (LTFU) Study

This clinical study was designed as an extension of the Trifecta™ IDE Study supporting FDA approval of the Trifecta™ valve. A total of 11 Trifecta™ IDE Study investigational sites in the United States (n=9) and Canada (n=2) participated in the Trifecta™ LTFU Study. Study enrollment included 329 subjects implanted from 2007 through 2009 at these 11 sites during the IDE Study who consented to participate in continued annual follow-up through 10 years post-implant. Of these 329 subjects, 140 also participated in the FDA-mandated Trifecta™ Post-Approval Study (PAS, NCT01514162) prior to consenting to additional annual follow-up under the Trifecta™ LTFU protocol. The remaining 189 subjects entered the Trifecta™ LTFU Study directly from the Trifecta™ IDE Study. The Trifecta™ LTFU Study database subsumes all data collected in the 329 participants under the Trifecta™ IDE and Trifecta™ PAS protocols and extends these data through 10 years from each subject's original date of implant in the Trifecta™ IDE Study. The Trifecta™ LTFU Study data thus encompass 10 years of continuous annual post-implant follow-up in the 329 participants as well as their pre-implant Baseline Visit data. Data collected includes adverse events, assessments of heart failure symptoms by New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification, and echocardiographic assessments of Trifecta™ valve function.