Valvular & structural heart disease

Simplified Outcome Prediction in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention by Survival Tree-Based Modelling

JACC AdvPublished survival tree-based model

Corrected 23 Oct 2026: Measure wording clarified; no values changed.

Performance · Survival by risk categoryResult — go to the resultHR for 2-year mortality 4.3

Authors' conclusion

This simple survival tree-based model effectively stratifies patients with severe TR into distinct risk categories, demonstrating significant differences in 2-year survival after TTVI.

Study context

Population
Patients undergoing transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention (TTVI) for severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR)patients undergoing TTVI for severe TR · derivation set 631 · validation set 287
Participants
918 patients
Comparison
Survival tree-based risk categories for 2-year survival after TTVI
  • Low-risk categoryn = 261
  • High-risk categoryn = 190
Outcome
Survival by risk category
Follow-up
2 years
Methodological detailssupervised machine learning-derived, external validation
  • Supervised machine learning-derived
  • External validation

Performance

As reported in the abstract

HR for 2-year mortality

4.3

P < 0.001

By group

Further findings

Net re-classification improvement

Model comparable to the TRI-Score and outperformed the EuroScore II in identifying high-risk patients
Prognostic value of risk phenotypes confirmed by external validation

Original publication

Simplified Outcome Prediction in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention by Survival Tree-Based Modelling. JACC Adv. Published 22 January 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.101575

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