Is tricuspid regurgitation associated with increased mortality risk in patients with heart failure?
In a large database of US heart failure patients, the presence of tricuspid regurgitation is associated with a markedly increased risk of mortality across all subgroups.
In this large contemporary patient-level database of almost half-million US patients with HF, TR was associated with a marked increases in mortality risk overall and in all subgroups. Future randomized controlled trials will evaluate the impact of TR correction on clinical outcomes and the causal relationship between TR and mortality.
Messika‐Zeitoun et al. (Tue,) studied this question.