Tricuspid valve regurgitation occurs when blood abnormally flows backwards from the right ventricle into the right atrium through a diseased tricuspid valve. Tricuspid regurgitation can be organic ...

Older Vermonters are finding a better quality of life thanks to a new heart valve procedure.Last year, Hazel Winter of ...

The tricuspid valve is anatomically complex. It’s often called the “forgotten valve” because of its position in the back of ...

With new transcatheter options for the repair or replacement of tricuspid valves, the role and timing of repair — whether surgical or minimally invasive — is entering a time of transition.

tricuspid valve surgery is still the treatment of choice for primary tricuspid regurgitation and for patients with concomitant left-sided valvular heart disease. In secondary tricuspid TR and low ...

Southlake is the second hospital in Ontario and one of the first four hospitals in Canada to use this technology, after ...

claiming to be the first transcatheter valve replacement therapy globally approved for the treatment of TR. "FDA approves Edwards’ EVOQUE for tricuspid regurgitation" was originally created and ...

Moderate-to-severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has a high prevalence in the general population, 1 and it progressively increases in older individuals, in whom it is close to 4%.

Q. I have a leaky heart valve that may need surgery down the road. Can you tell me about heart-valve surgery in one of your columns? A. First, let’s explain briefly how the heart works.