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.

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

“Surgery has improving outcomes—we ... the rise in the numbers of patients referred for percutaneous repair or replacement. Still, while the prevalence of moderate or severe tricuspid regurgitation is ...

Repair of the tricuspid valve in severe tricuspid regurgitation when mitral valve surgery is planned (class I, level of evidence B). Tricuspid valve replacement or annuloplasty ring is reasonable ...

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

Due to a typically older, sicker profile, most patients with tricuspid regurgitation (TR) have historically avoided surgery ... transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) device in April 2024.

Two patients at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital receive recently FDA-approved Evoque Tricuspid Valve Replacements for severe tricuspid regurgitation ... open-heart surgery. Antony Kaliyadan ...

These techniques include percutaneous valve replacement, arrhythmia ablation surgery ... include pulmonary valve regurgitation, arrhythmia (atrial and ventricular), tricuspid valve regurgitation ...

This is different than Carvallo’s sign which occurs in the setting of tricuspid valve regurgitation ... repair or replacement of the tricuspid valve is usually deferred unless cardiac surgery ...

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 ...