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 ...

Background: Late severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) after left-side valve surgery (LSVS) is not uncommon. However, the tricuspid valve has been deemed the forgotten valve because the isolated TR is ...

UVM Medical Center is the only Vermont hospital offering Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) This new heart ...

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

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Falk reported that in his experience in Europe, tricuspid valve surgery is still the treatment of choice for primary tricuspid regurgitation and for patients with concomitant left-sided valvular ...

Only 11.1% received concomitant tricuspid valve surgery (repair). There was significant reduction in the severity of TR in the overall population, from 38 (23.5%) patients having moderate or severe TR ...

Eight patients in group 1 had no surgery and are doing well, with a competent tricuspid valve. Palliative procedures were undertaken in 28 patients: 14 had pulmonary artery banding, which resulted in ...

"Until recently, the story of the tricuspid valve was that patients with significant TR suffered for a long time but were undiagnosed until their disease was severe. Then there weren't really any ...