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Interventions for isolated tricuspid regurgitation are rarely performed due to increased surgical risk and late presentation, highlighting the need to identify outcome predictors to differentiate favorable responders and guide treatment selection.
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Highlights the importance of patient selection, timing, and predicting outcomes to guide decision-making in the treatment of isolated tricuspid regurgitation.
Isolated tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has gained increasing recognition in recent years both in the surgical and in the cardiological community. Left untreated, isolated TR significantly worsens survival. Despite being a strong predictor of negative prognosis, interventions to correct TR are rarely performed due to increased surgical risk and late patient presentation. Recently, the ultimate focus has been on patient selection, surgical or transcatheter indication, and correct timing. Furthermore, of paramount importance is the identification of predictors of outcome following treatment, in order to discriminate between favorable and unfavorable responders and guide the decision-making process of the most adequate treatment for every patient.
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Sala et al. (2022) studied this question.
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