Effect of advanced chronic kidney disease in clinical and echocardiographic outcomes of patients treated with MitraClip system.

Background: Data regarding the influence of different levels of renal dysfunction on clinical and echocardiographic results of MitraClip therapy are scarce. We aimed to evaluate the impact of baseline advance renal failure in the outcomes of a cohort of patients treated with MitraClip.

Methods And Results: We analyzed data from a multicenter registry of 173 patients treated with MitraClip between 2009 and 2012.