December 4, 2019 – Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is actively participating in a new medical study (TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial), and enrolling patients who have severe symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation (leakage through the tricuspid valve), and are deemed appropriate for transcatheter intervention. This study is being conducted by Abbott, and is designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the TriClip device for the treatment of severe tricuspid regurgitation. Potential participants must go through a screening process prior to being enrolled in the study.
“Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center continues to be at the forefront when it comes to breakthroughs for cardiac procedures,” said Dr. Saurabh Sanon, medical director for the structural heart disease program and principal investigator for this study at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. “This is the first Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) trial in the U.S. to evaluate a non-surgical, minimally invasive, catheter-based treatment option for patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation”
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers a variety of minimally-invasive treatment options and advanced structural heart innovations. A patient navigator helps you save time by scheduling and coordinating your appointments with the different specialists that provide your care. And, we make sure that you fully understand your options and get answers to your questions. For more information about the study and our program, contact us at 561-694-7109.
About Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is a 199-bed acute care hospital serving the medical and healthcare needs of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast for over 50 years. The hospital was the first in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast to perform open-heart surgery and has since remained one of the area’s leading heart hospitals, having performed nearly 19,000 open-heart surgeries and more than 100,000 cardiac catheterizations to date.
The Heart & Vascular Institute at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers comprehensive cardiac care and advanced minimally-invasive procedures including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), MitraClip, and Watchman. The hospital is the first in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin County to adopt the minimally invasive convergent approach to treat patients with atrial fibrillation. The hospital’s outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program is designed for people recovering from a heart attack, coronary bypass or valve surgery, and angioplasty or stent procedures.
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers advanced orthopedic care to our community. Some of the services offered include: total joint replacements for hip, knee and shoulder, sports medicine, arthroscopy, podiatry, fracture management and inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation. In 2019, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center was the only hospital in the State of Florida to utilize the NAVIO robotic-assisted surgical system to perform total and partial knee replacements.
Additional services include an Advanced Certified Primary Stroke Center, diagnostic imaging, general and robotic surgery, an Epilepsy Program and 24-hour emergency care. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center’s Emergency Department offers all private rooms and is equipped with technology to help increase patient comfort, reduce wait times and provide up-to-the-minute patient status, as well as immediate access to film-based radiological images, interpretations and related data. The hospital’s Epilepsy Program is the first of its kind in Palm Beach County to have a dedicated Epilepsy Monitoring Unit that is equipped with long-term video monitoring, a specialized form of an EEG for patients who suffer from seizures. The hospital acquired the da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgical System which can be used across a spectrum of minimally-invasive procedures such as cardiovascular, colorectal, general surgery, gynecology, urology and more.
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is Palm Beach County’s only hospital to get four consecutive “A’s” for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group (Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017). The hospital was the recipient of the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus from 2015 – 2019 and also earned the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from 2013 to 2018. For more information or for a complimentary physician referral, please call (833)-619-8831 or visit www.pbgmc.com.
