TRICUSPID REGURGITATION - COMPARISON OF NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT, TRICUSPID ANNULOPLASTY, AND TRICUSPID-VALVE REPLACEMENT

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 72  (6) , 867-874
Abstract
The best means of managing tricuspid regurgitation associated with mitral or mitral and aortic valve disease is still to be determined. During the period 1972-1974, 76 patients who had tricuspid regurgitation along with associated valvular dysfunction were treated. Patients with mild regurgitation were treated conservatively, those with moderate regurgitation underwent annuloplasty, and those with severe regurgitation had tricuspid valve replacement. The results were less satisfactory in the group treated by annuloplasty than in the other 2 groups. Those patients with mild regurgitation are still managed conservatively, but it is appropriate to replace the valve in an increasing number of subjects who have tricuspid regurgitation of moderate severity.

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