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

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

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 ...

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%.

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

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.