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What is the clinical importance and optimal surgical timing for severe tricuspid regurgitation?
What is the clinical importance and optimal surgical timing for severe tricuspid regurgitation?
This review highlights the clinical importance of severe tricuspid regurgitation and discusses the optimal timing for surgical intervention.
May inform earlier referral in severe TR; leaves open optimal timing pending prospective trials.
Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has long been neglected based on the false belief that it is substantially rare in prevalence and is not so important in determining prognosis. Recent consecutive publications refuted this concept surrounding TR, and now we are contemplating this entity from different point of view. In this review, we mainly focus on isolated form of severe TR. In our daily clinical practice, however, patients with problems in more than one valve are more frequently encountered. Hence, we briefly touch on the results of severe TR surgery with or without left side valve operations here and there, as well.
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