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Systematic Tricuspid Valve Repair<br />

Rationale for Surgical Correction<br />

The low risk of tricuspid repair, high prevalence of late<br />

secondary tricuspid regurgitation, the inability to reliably<br />

predict which patients will develop secondary regurgitation,<br />

and the high mortality and morbidity associated with severe<br />

tricuspid regurgitation, it may ultimately prove beneficial to<br />

perform prophylactic tricuspid repair in most patients having<br />

mitral valve surgery regardless of the presence of annular<br />

dilatation or regurgitation<br />

Anyanwu A, Chikwe J, and David H. Adams, MD, Current Cardiology Reports 2008, 10:110–117

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